Ease of Readability for Dyslexic People

  Vighnesh Venkatakrishnan,  Priyanka Mohile,  Riya Mehta,  Dharmesh Mistry

Dyslexia is a specific reading disability in word recognition, spelling and decoding. People with dyslexia require special adjustments to the text and text environment to be able to read better. Websites that support dyslexic people in reading are minimal. This discourages people facing such difficulties from using the Internet. Therefore, there is a need to identify user-interface requirements for readability for students with dyslexia. The requirements are proper font style, font size, font color, background color and spacing. This is in line with results from several interviews conducted among educators in Dyslexia Titiwangsa Centre. The results showed that dyslexic students were able to read better and easier when using built-in user-interface requirements. Our objective is to make a software that accepts the file the dyslexic person wants to read and display it in readable format for them. Every word can be shown slowly letter by letter or every sentence could be shown word by word according to their convenience, instead of the entire word or sentence being displayed at once. This will enable them to grasp and read properly, at their own pace.

Keywords- dyslexia, reading disability, user-interface requirements, web readability.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1504056
Page Number(s) - 364-368
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 4 | November 2015
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Vighnesh Venkatakrishnan,  Priyanka Mohile,  Riya Mehta,  Dharmesh Mistry,   "Ease of Readability for Dyslexic People", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 4, pp.364-368, November 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1504056.pdf