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Vernon Fowler

6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users - UX Movement - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 13 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • many dyslexic users are sensitive to the brightness the high contrast colors cause
  • use an off-white color for your background, like a light gray or tan. You can also use a dark gray for your text instead of pure black to cut the glare even more
  • dyslexic users need more breaks between ideas than non-dyslexic users
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  • Breaking up your text to one idea per paragraph makes reading a lot easier for both dyslexic and non-dyslexic users.
  • a sans-serif font would allow dyslexic users to see the shapes of letters clearer
  • you shouldn’t use italicized text because they make letters hard to read
  • avoid creating the river effect by using left aligned text, instead of justified text for your paragraphs
Vernon Fowler

5 Ways to Offer a Better UX for Disabled Users - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 08 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Vernon Fowler on 08 Mar 16
     
    Empathy is unrivalled as a skill a user interface designer should have. Walking in somebody else's shoes (or seeing through their eyes may be a better metaphor), can be a temporary replacement for having a user/tester at hand. Let's take a look at some disabilities that we so often forget.
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