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Having dyslexia, I would say this is rather extreme, I can't speak for everyone but reading isn't like this for most dyslexics.

Usually it is a pair of letters being swapped, or numbers order reversed. They don't jump around/change randomly, you just misread it.

http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/symptoms.htm

The new font for dyslexics also goes into this some more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-font-helps-dys...

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I feel like if you wanted to properly simulate dyslexia, you would need really precise eye tracking, and make changes to the words while you are not looking at them. Then, if you glance back at the word, it is corrected.

I don't have dyslexia (at least not seriously enough that I have ever thought about it) so I was wondering if such a thing would be more accurate to your experiences.

Dysgraphia is a part related to dyslexia.

This can be a problem, b d p q 9, W M N, O 0 o e, E 5 S R B and more.

Did the parent originally talk about dysgraphia? Because while I have pretty serious dysgraphia I'm not really dyslexic. While related they're pretty significantly different. One of my best friends growing up had dyslexia and with my dysgraphia we always joked about being one 'normal' person.

No. At age 60, when I was 12 they really didn't have a name for any of this. For years my school records had be as retarded. It was not until I taught myself calculus and trig in the 8th grade that my parent new something was wrong and sent teaching specialists at OU. They a used the word dyslexia. This was all very new in the 60s.

I was experimenting with character substitution too, but it won't work well with a variable width font, since the words at the end of the page moves a lot.

There are fonts to help with dyslexia. They try to make like letter different. They also remove a lot of the variable spacing. https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexie-font/

That was crazy, I was able to read the article in the dyslexic font way faster than before.

I wish I could change all fonts to be this.

> I wish I could change all fonts to be this.

This is one thing I miss of "Web 1.0": the default to providing information and respecting the client's preference for presentation.

There's some browser addons, for ex https://addons.mozilla.org/de/android/addon/mobile-dyslexic/...

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