Dyslexia & IRC

[Norm, VK3XCI]

Hi Paul and others,

I have in fact got a work-in-progress on this very issue. I've had 
sixty-something years to sort it out, and my "case" was pretty mild to start 
with. My son is not so lucky, 'tho' not as bad as some.

Basically, looking at a printed page is chaos, literally, and requires some 
effort to restore order. Considerable effort in some cases. So much so that by 
the time you get to reading the last word on a line the first is forgotten, so 
making sense of it all can be quite draining.

Now, consider what happens when the page is chaos to start with!

Some IM clients allow you to set a colour for each person. That works like a treat!

Having said that, there are more variations and permutations of Dyslexia than we 
can ever enumerate. It's a pretty individual thing from reading the the odd word 
backwards (Skabetti is the classic!) to the aforementioned full blown chaos!

Some people such as myself, become extremely pedantic about the written word. 
Others, like my son, cheerfully embrace the chaos.

Thank you for asking! Being a community thing, perhaps there is somewhere on 
Ubuntu I could post some info... or maybe I should blog it myself?

Meanwhile...
keep all sentences short with one subject and one predicate (look it up :) )
use lotsa dot points for questions
leave plenty of white space to break up the chaos.
If yu carnt undastand it, reed it owt lowd.  :)




73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

Paul Gear wrote:
> Norm, VK3XCI wrote:
>> ...
>> Sorry I wasn't "at" the meeting. I'm dyslexic and found the random postings VERY 
>> hard to follow. Ended up printing out the log and going through it with a couple 
>> of hi-lighters. No way I could do it in real time!
> Hi Norm,
> 
> Your comment got me thinking - i don't know a lot about dyslexia and
> what it means for the way dyslexics operate online.  I was emailing a
> dyslexic guy the other week and i inadvertently made it hard for him to
> understand me due to the way i quoted and the way i phrased my
> questions.  IRC is used very commonly to support Ubuntu, and Free
> Software in general.  Would you be willing to explain a little further
> how the condition works (especially with respect to email & instant
> messaging/chat) and perhaps suggest what steps we could take to support
> dyslexic people better?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
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