Graphical Modification of Text. An Approach To Dyslexic Users.

Abstract

The requirements of user interface for dyslexics have not been yet properly explored. Accessibility to any kind of information or just to entertainment web pages is a key factor to equality of rights, moreover it breaks down social barriers. Considering that study materials are nowadays very much accessible through internet, by accommodating web content to anyhow disabled users must be seen as natural thing. Dyslexia is considered as an cognitive impairment arising from visual similarity of letters, therefore we focus on Czech language which uses special characters. The aim of our research is to introduce an application that allows dyslexics to decode text easier and understand it properly.

Emerging Technology Enabling Dyslexia Users To Read and Perceive Written Text Correctly

“…The main idea involves changing the visual perception of web pages on the user side. A hypothesis that inserting a fragmentation sign may help dyslexic users (both with developmental and secondary dyslexia) was preliminarily studied in Pařilová [14,15] and Pařilová, Hladká and Bayer [16]. On ten volunteering subjects it shows that fragmentation has a potential to improve speed of reading while understanding of context is not disturbed (Tab.…”