If you can read this, your brain works 50% faster than others 8

[rjoubert]

I remember reading this before...not sure if it was here...if it's a repost, I apologize.

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

If you can read this, your brain is 50% faster than those who can't.

 

[Stella740pl]

"how these kind of letters didn't seem any better than these"

Probably not much better, but in short words, the first and last letter are more visible in black than the other way around. Doesnt't make much of a difference in longer words, I would say.

Say, t[green]h[/green][red]es[/red]e k[red]i[/red][green]n[/green]d of l[green]et[/green][red]t[/red][green]e[/green][red]r[/red]s look just a tiny bit more readable to me than [green]t[/green]hes[red]e[/red] [green]k[/green]in[red]d[/red] of [green]l[/green]etter[red]s[/red]; t[navy]hes[/navy]e k[navy]in[/navy]d of l[navy]etter[/navy]s is noticeably better, but these kind of letters is much better than all of the above. To me, at least.

 

[IknowMe]

Aplying the same attributes to the first and last char goes against what p5 is trying to acomplish. Dyslexia (as I understand it) causes the words to be jumbled to the reader. He's suggesting different constant colors for the first and last char as the word could end up looking like this to the reader

letter = telret

However they know (by color) the l is the first letter and the r is the last letter and can then read it the same way I read the OP

With
letter
you could get
terelte

Wich leaves the reader knowing the bolded char are the begining and the end but which is which?



Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I see Mr Milson,

didn't know that dyslexia works this way.

My thought was, looked through red/green 3D glasses the black letters will be visible to both eyes and therefor stand out, while the red and green ones can only be seen in one of the eyes, but all letters then will appear black/greyish, taken aside the problem with the white background and that red/green 3D pictures have a washed reddish/greenish look anyway.

Text could be printed, so that first letters come to the front, last letters go to the black in their 3D look.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Skie]

Dyslexia is most commonly characterized by difficulties with learning how to decode at the word level, to spell, and to read accurately and fluently. Dyslexic individuals often have difficulty "breaking the code" of sound-letter association (the alphabetic principle), and they may also reverse or transpose letters when writing or confuse letters such as b, d, p, q, especially in childhood. However, dyslexia is not a visual problem that involves reading letters or words backwards or upside down, nor are such reversals a defining characteristic of dyslexia.

Spelling errors — Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words (e.g., spelling "magic" as mjc).
Letter order - Dyslexics may also reverse the order of two letters especially when the final, incorrect, word looks similar to the intended word (e.g., spelling "dose" instead of "does").
Highly phoneticized spelling - Dyslexics also commonly spell words inconsistently, but in a highly phonetic form such as writing "shud" for "should". Dyslexic individuals also typically have difficulty distinguishing among homophones such as "their" and "there".

Based on wiki, I don't think the red/green would make any difference when they read, since transposing occurs during spelling.

 

[CajunCenturion]

I think the red/green would make things worse because of where the focal point within the eye varies for different colors. That's why you'll see some web sites where you have blue and red letters on black background and the site appears in 3D. That's a function of where the focal point of that color wavelength sits in relation to the cornea. That's also why you "see" one of the colors first before you can focus in on the other colors.

That problem is alleviated with Stella's bold suggestion, but I'm not either will help the true dyslexic.

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[IknowMe]

Ignore my ignorance!

<and they may also reverse or transpose letters when writing

I thought the same was true for reading and that the coloring the letters in p5's post was to distinguish the order of the transposed characters through an altered view.

Aparently I'm just a clueless idiot
[small]no offense meant to coneheads for my misuse of their icon in lue of a TT lacking dunce cap smiley[/small]

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[IknowMe]

Sad truth is I was banking my explanation on a T-shirt ....oh the shame

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.