SophiaSalamoneJul 13, 2025
The hashtag is #dyslexiafriendly. I wanted to take a moment to make a post in the #dyslexiafriendly thread to inform fellow learning disability havers and supporters about a new development in the accommodations world. #CaptiVoice, which I began using when I started my graduate program, is no longer available for Higher Education licensing. We have use of it only until July 31. This is truly heartbreaking, as the software even had a #dyslexiafriendly font.
TiggyMay 28, 2025

Over in the other place there are lots of posts in all caps. Some by education related groups who should know better.

I'm too tired to try to decode them.
All caps are a disability barrier for dyslexics like me. I learned to read by recognising the shapes of words and all caps distorts that.
My dyslexic power is that I can skim read text like this very fast because it is about the shapes not phonemes.

Also, more generally, expert advice is not to use all caps for children's books.

#DyslexiaFriendly

Show threadRamenCatholic 🐒🌈May 3, 2023

#Review - I regret challenging myself to read this, as #LRH had a writing style that is difficult for me. It is not #DyslexiaFriendly at all.

I can only read a few pages at a time, so if I finish this project it's gonna take a long time.

At this point, it's basically an extended introduction of the book. Hopefully it gets easier to read as I continue.

🧡4/4

BoydstonLawFeb 24, 2023

Google’s new app Reading Mode has been specifically designed to read long text, such as online articles. You can ask it to read out the content on the screen and control the playback speed.

#Law #LawFedi #LongReads #Accessibilty #TextToSpeech #ADHD #DyslexiaFriendly #audiobookstodon #GoogleReadingMode

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/googles-reading-mode-app-helps-visually-impaired-people-read-long-form-content/

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Show threadPonyOfModeration πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ„πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊNov 18, 2022

@laurablamey I'm struggling with spelling the endless tags correctly and especially doing so in #CamelCase as even though I've used it lots, the suggestion is still in lowercase #DyslexiaFriendly

Not being able to edit, just delete/repost is a pain with dyslexia tbh. As I'll spot spelling errors in my posts after several people have commented and I can't correct them without losing the comments.

Ho hum - it's still good though πŸ™‚πŸ™‚ nice to meet you.

PonyOfModeration πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ„πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊNov 11, 2022

Tag this.. confusing tags are potentially inaccessible information that is unintentionally excluding. But how will I get people on here to notice that without a tag...

It's tends to exclude many of us dyslexic people as, for example, I can't remember letter patterns of more than 2 letters and even then I will reverse them. So a 4 letter combo of letters will, initially, be 4 ever-jumbling letters and that's a hard thing to transfer to a search engine to look up...

A suggestion please, try to avoid coming up with loads of new variant acronym tags without finding a way to set out clearly, and readily found, what they mean. Yes, it's tricky when trying to capture a phrase, so best efforts not rules.

Trying to write tags is hard enough especially as they are best in #CamelCase and the suggestions are all in lowercase.

Having #ADHD makes this harder too as I struggle even with that well known acronym.

Thanks xx

#Dyslexia #Tags #AccessibleInformation #Barriers #DyslexiaFriendly #Acronym #disabilityrights