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Ask HN: Good Browser Plugins for Dyslexics

4 pointsby sdmike1over 4 years ago
I&#x27;m dyslexic and reading documentation can be a real pain if the lines are long (I&#x27;ll get lost in the middle of a sentence and loose what line I&#x27;m on, in particular the transition between lines is really rough). In the past, I&#x27;ve been saved by the ability to resize my browser window or the fact that man pages are 80 chars wide. Unfortunately the docs I&#x27;ve been dealing with at work lately don&#x27;t re-flow when you change the size of the viewport, they just gain a horizontal scrollbar, which is less than helpful.<p>Does anyone have any good browser extensions for dyslexics? Specifically any that help with following a line to the next one down.<p>I recall seeing an extension in a thread on here about Dyslexia in the past few months that really helped. It would highlight the last word or two of a line and put a matching highlight on the first one or two words of the next lines.

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helph67over 4 years ago
The extension may be Scroll Reading which highlights a sentence from one line to the next... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;scrollreading&#x2F;?src=search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;scrollreading...</a>
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robertbalentover 4 years ago
There is Immersive Reader from Microsoft which may be helpful.<p>But you would probably need to used new Edge chromium-base browser, which is available only on Windows and MacOS.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onenote.com&#x2F;learningtools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onenote.com&#x2F;learningtools</a>
rudolph9over 4 years ago
I use the [OpenDyslexia font][1] which is somewhat helpful but the more I got used to it the less helpful it has become.<p>The plugin you’re describing sounds pretty helpful! I wonder if it could be built just using CSS rules?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendyslexic.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendyslexic.org&#x2F;</a>
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rudolph9over 4 years ago
It’s unfortunate that often special formatting is done to documentation. I understand for marketing websites and landing pages why orgs want it but docs need to be consumable by many different parties. I find it very frustrating when orgs add js and css that break accessibility of documentation!