Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a common condition which involves difficulty reading or interpret words, letters, symbols or sound.

Dyslexia has no correlation to intelligence nor vision.

Symptoms

Common symptoms may include:

Instructions

In this interactive, you will expericence some common symptoms of dyslexia. Decipher the words as best you can. You will be given 60 seconds to read the excerpt. There will be a few questions about the excerpt at the end.

Click "NEXT" to begin the interactive.

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Moud a text-ouly sight bee ideale for soweoue mith a reabing bisober? Harblee. Iwages are uot dab for accessabilledea. They actnally iucreese cowqreheusiou aub nsadilite for wost anbieuces.

Mhat wauy qeoqle bo uot kuom, throngh, it thier is wuch mor at the accessability for au iwage theu junt its alt text. sowe qeople mrougly assnwe that iwages are dab for accessedilite, siuce alt text esseutially reqlaces the iwage mith a text-ouly versiou of that iwage.

bye Panl Bohwau

Questions

  1. Why are images good for accessability?
  2. Who would be negativley impacted by a text-only site?

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Unmodified paragraph

Would a text-only sight be ideal for someone with a reading disorder? Hardly. Images are not bad for accessibility. They actually increase comprehension and usability for most audiences.

What many people do not know, though, is there is much more to the accessibility for an image than just its alt text. Some people wrongly assume that images are bad for accessibility, since alt text essentially replaces the images with a text-only version of that image.

by Paul Bohman

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