But the move away from XUL is indeed worrisome for plugins like these...
I kinda hope someone will just build it into the servo project and make that into a usable minimal browser.
I'm in Belgium.
I have a feeling that the general public considers it to be something that affects reading ability and leave it at that.
However some of my language teachers (Dutch,English,French) would offer to print reading comprehension tests in a larger font, which does not help at all for me (nor any other dyslexic I know, but apparently some did find it helpful).
The speech therapists I saw after school for extra language lessons to help me with dyslexia seemed to have a lot better understanding. Or at least the never offered advice/help that I know didn't work for me, and I had noticeable improvements with those lessons.
You are correct that poor reading ability is the primary symptom of dyslexia, and that it had nothing to do with eye sight or intelligence.
Left me give you a brief run of what happens to me when reading the following sentence: "Reading this is impossible, but I try anyway." When I read it I may read "impobbible" instead. The thing is (for me) I saw the letters correctly. While reading that sentence and wrongly reading that I word I notice that something is wrong, so I stop to stare at the word and give it another attempt. At that point I see the word very clearly "impossible", but like a illiterate person I couldn't speak what was written down there (notice the phonological aspect?). The only option I have at that point is to look at each letter individually and then I usually get it "AH, It says 'impossible', of course!". I feel that the struggle I have here is really phonological in nature. After that I happily continue reading without to much issue until the next "strange" thing comes up.
So now my question is: Is this a "visual" problem? Did the letters "jump" around? Well... yes ... and ... no. They did. I read "impobbible". It really is what I thought was written down there. It feels like my brain says "yeah impossible means impobbible".
As an aside, if you asked me to write down the word that I had misread, with out letting me figure out what it truly was, then I probably wouldn't be able to remember what was written down there, and just go for whatever I pronounced. At least that is what I think would happen.
You don't look at each letter individually when reading, you match patterns of letters, parts of words, whole words, fill things in based on context... I feel like it is this pattern matching that goes completely wrong every now and then.
And that is where the visual aspect comes into play. Despite not being vision related I do find that using the opendyslexic font is a noticeable help, and I'm guessing its because it changes the shape of letter and words, which in turn changes how the pattern matching works. I feel that the claim that it is not a visual problem is very accurate but that certainly doesn't mean there can't be visual based tools to help us. Note that I also have dysgraphia, mgrennan mentioned that font was more of a help when you have both.
Interesting enough I hadn't noticed the incorrect spelling of the title of this post until
kator pointed it out in his comment. Anyway I hope this helps.
I am handwriting a word and instead of writing a p I write a b. I trend to immateriality notice this mistake, sometimes even when I'm still in the process of writing the wrong letter. And this does not happen when typing.
However this is considered dysgrafie, not dyslexia. That said, it's the brain that has defects, and it's probably more or less all connected and related to each other.
I had myself be tested by a psychologist when I was around 8 I think, and again when I was 20.
Should you care?
I'm not sure, you can look into tools that are recommended for dyslexic people (a spellings corrector is probably the single biggest thing), but you can try those without actually knowing if you are...
If you are a student then your school may provide special facilities for you. Other then that I can't think of a reason to care, besides satisfying a curiosity.
Would it be fair to say that you see text fine and not like that link but you do experience it that way?
I've been thinking about this since I posted my comment. I feel like it may be a reasonable way to say/explain it: we don't see letters/words jump around, but we do experience them jumping around in a non-visual way.
Is that accurate, or do you really mean that you visually see that circle like in that link?
According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system.
Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system, or how a person's brain understands and can use the sound-based reading "code". A dyslexic reader has difficulty cracking that code.
Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility.
You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk...
Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't.
Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a lengthy and tiring explanation that likely wont be understood anyway.
I do appreciate the effort that went into this, and that people try to understand, but I don't think this particular experiment is helpful, because people will get the wrong idea about what dyslexia is.
Edit: Arzh is right in that I'm being a bit harsh/dramatic here, so I made some small changes.
Could you elaborate on that? I can't find anything about the GNUCash developers trying to get rid of guile. What made you believe so and why would they get rid of it? What other applications besides GNUCash did you have in mind?
Like kuschku which you falsely accused of being some "alex" ? [1]
You're not making yourself any more believable...
At this point its probably better to stop posting and reflect on all of this for a day.
Do you think youtube/twitch/... don't face these issues?
Have you ever come across a youtube account that said:
BANNED FOR POSTING PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES ON LIVECODING.TV
BANNED FOR POSTING PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES ON LIVECODING.TV
BANNED FOR POSTING PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES ON LIVECODING.TV
No. They just delete the account. I don't think many people would want to join a website where the CEO vandalizes user profile pages, regardless of the reason.
I know its not the point of the post but there is a small error:
Neither of Blender's render engines is physically-accurate.
(And only 1 is physically based.)
You need to use something like Luxrender (it can be used with Blender) if you want a physically unbiased render.
Why is bittorrent abysmal on network traffic and inherently slow ?
Both facebook and twitter use it for server deployment because they utilize network resources far better than centralized systems.
I would make the opposite claim: distributed systems can be far more efficient or reliable than centralized service.
Looks like a closed source Ipad clone of mypaint.
If you want this for the desktop I recommend mypaint instead, it already has 8 years of development and its free.
At the end of the post:
Update (2013-01-24): Mega has now switched to using SHA-256. They get points for fixing it quickly, but I wonder what other subtle or not-so-subtle security problems remain.
You can't do end to end encryption if the receiver doesn't know how to deal with encryption stuff.
The second best thing to do is to use a e-mail provider that encrypts your e-mail using asymmetric key the moment they receive your mail. It protects you against search warrants but not active eavesdropping of your mail. And if the receiver's mail provider is being eavesdropped or receives a search warrants then there is noting you can do.