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Discussion on: Why You Should Give a S*** About Accessibility

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

As someone with dyslexia, I appreciate the reminder to UX designers to account for diabilities! Making a website dyslexic friendly is not hard.

  • Don't EVER do black-on-white or white-on-black! Those are hardest for us to read. Black on off-white, or white on a dark non-black background are better.

  • Don't use icon fonts.. We have SVG for a reason.

  • Make your website behave well with Stylish, which some dyslexic users use to override colors and fonts to make the site more readable.

  • Sans serif FTW, but please choose fonts without that annoying l-I-1 collision.

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Curious, I find sharp contrasting text the easier to read and have difficulties reading sites that use off-colors.

Doesn't context usually resolve I-l-1 collisions?

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Jason C. McDonald

Context isn't much of a factor in dyslexia, because the condition moves letters/words around for us (in different ways depending on the type of dyslexia). If we know what the letter IS, we can usually "untangle" what we're reading, but the l-I-1 collision makes it harder, because we don't know what it was.