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Can someone with dyslexia check if I'm doing accessibility right?
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this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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Hi, thanks for checking it out, but did you try the buttons at the top? When you load the page it says what they are for, the one on the right turns on the "dyslexia-friendly" mode (there is no italics on it)
- Unless you are on mobile, I didn't work much on the mobile version yet.
Ahhh, I'm on mobile. Lemme try to load it as desktop
Ouch. Desktop version on mobile is bad, but not because of the font. The color scheme along with the background makes it rough to see the letters at all. The buttons are also hard to use. I don't have my laptop available right now, but ima send a note to myself to check it tomorrow
For real, someone putting in effort for accessibility is a really cool thing to see. If I brain fart and don't respond again tomorrow, feel free to dm me as reminder.
I made some changes to the mobile version and added the button there too... the numbers are probably confusing to read for everyone, I don't intend people to actually read them, although they are time stamps - I'm also testing accessibility for screenreaders so in the code the numbers, slashs and colons are ignored and the screenreader reads "// 202604212244 :" as "April 21, 2026 at 22:44" (I'm not actually expecting any blind person to find this site, I'm just practicing how to code a site with accessibility, thanks for the help!)
Oh! That worked much better on mobile via requesting desktop.
The readability definitely improved when using the buttons. I still ran into my usual difficulty parsing l and I, but the dbpqg part was almost non existent. So I think you got the spacing down right. As weird as it may seem, the font of the regular version has enough difference between i and l that those show clearer for me than in the dyslexic assist version, though the other letters are better in the assist.
Looking at it on my laptop is solid. The only thing I might suggest is labelling buttons instead of mouseover, or increasing the size so that they're a bit more obvious as buttons for us old farts that need reading glasses lol.
The colorblind contrast setting actually improved readability of the text for me as well. There's something about the background that ever so slightly distorts the lettering, though I have no clue why that is.
But, on the laptop, the letter readability was roughly the same, with the difference in screen quality making way more of a difference than anything about the fonts or spacing
Honestly, It's way better readability on either device (tablet and latop) than most sites.
It's fucking brilliant to see someone putting in the time to work on this :)