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6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users - UX Movement6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users - UX Movement
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on February 24, 2011 - 9:36am
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6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users - UX Movement As an amateur dyslexic, i can vouch for pretty much all of this.
I've always seen the white space trails you can track down through pages of text, whether books or SAT tests or web sites. I didn't realize that the "river effect" was a dyslexic thing.
I still say sentences should have two spaces after them until someone can tell me how modern proportional fonts magically know when a period is used in U.S. and when it is used to end a sentence. I'll accept using a special full stop character instead but no one has told me of one.
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River effect isn't a solely
River effect isn't a solely dyslexia thing, all people see them... it just has more of an impact on readability for dyslexia.
Full justification should never be used on the web under any circumstances.
When it is used in print, books in particular, it is usually done by professional typesetters who put a great deal of work into making sure that rivers and large gaps between words do not occur. These things are not possible when you just use a 'justify' button or tag.
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