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📣 sdmike1

Good Browser Plugins for Dyslexics


I'm dyslexic and reading documentation can be a real pain if the lines are long (I'll get lost in the middle of a sentence and loose what line I'm on, in particular the transition between lines is really rough). In the past, I'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've been dealing with at work lately don't re-flow when you change the size of the viewport, they just gain a horizontal scrollbar, which is less than helpful.

Does anyone have any good browser extensions for dyslexics? Specifically any that help with following a line to the next one down.

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.

  👤 helph67 Accepted Answer ✓
The extension may be Scroll Reading which highlights a sentence from one line to the next... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrollreading...
👤 robertbalent
There is Immersive Reader from Microsoft which may be helpful.

But you would probably need to used new Edge chromium-base browser, which is available only on Windows and MacOS.

https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

👤 rudolph9
I use the [OpenDyslexia font][1] which is somewhat helpful but the more I got used to it the less helpful it has become.

The plugin you’re describing sounds pretty helpful! I wonder if it could be built just using CSS rules?

[1]: https://www.opendyslexic.org/

👤 rudolph9
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!