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+ | At this meeting [[2016-05-25_meeting_notes|2016-05-25 - Meeting notes]] we received Daniel GIRARD who described us the dyslexia. | ||
+ | Daniel is a specialist of digital solutions designed to compensate " | ||
+ | Daniel exposed to us issues and needs of affected people and possible solutions, notably for Mail2Voice. | ||
+ | We then had a discussion. | ||
+ | Here is a synthesis of the overall discussion. | ||
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+ | ===== What is dyslexia? ===== | ||
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+ | Dyslexia (https:// | ||
+ | This issue is generally diagnosed in primary school during reading learning and causes scholar difficulties frequently. | ||
+ | About 10% of the population is affected. | ||
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+ | To understand what this problem is, we must define how reading process operates normally: | ||
+ | First, a visual function takes action. It aims to recognize graphs. It is then linked to a lexicon (dictonnary of known words and syllabs) in order to establish a link between graphs seen and known words/ | ||
+ | In a dyslexiaon situation, the link between what is seen and the lexicon doesn' | ||
+ | However, an affected person has a lexicon so oral communication works perfectly. | ||
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+ | There are different categories of " | ||
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+ | ===== Digital solutions for compensation ===== | ||
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+ | As a first note, it's important to know that currently no OS-wide solution exist in mainstream OSes. | ||
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+ | ==== Reading compensation ==== | ||
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+ | === Text to speech (TTS) === | ||
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+ | Text is read by software such the text is understood orally or verbally. This is the best solution. | ||
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+ | One must be able to : | ||
+ | * tune the speed | ||
+ | * highlight sentence and word that are currently read (and keep current state on pause) | ||
+ | * customise pronunciations (Laurent: good speech synthesis solutions already offer that) | ||
+ | * for bad readers : any word can be read through TTS when clicking on it. | ||
+ | * choose/ | ||
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+ | === Text display modifications === | ||
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+ | * space between lines, words, letters | ||
+ | * use of adapted fonts | ||
+ | * text coloration: | ||
+ | * lines/ | ||
+ | * lines backgrounds different of characters colors and different for each line | ||
+ | * font size tuning | ||
+ | * visual marker for beginning and end of line: put colored guides on each side of the text: a green one at the begining and a red one at the end. Like on this screenshot : | ||
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+ | ==== Writing compensation ==== | ||
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+ | * Speech recognition (Dragon, Google, ) - best solution | ||
+ | * echo-keyboard: | ||
+ | * keyboard with predictive algorithm | ||
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+ | ==== Other solutions ==== | ||
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+ | Beyond these functions designed specifically for dyslexia, we also discussed about: | ||
+ | * the possibility to export an email as an audio file | ||
+ | * the advantages of a simple configuration menu/page, designed as linear steps or even as a wizard. | ||
+ | * It could be interesting to allow hiding/ | ||
+ | * and for motor-disabled people: | ||
+ | * shortcuts for all functions | ||
+ | * a scrolling mode (explanations on this site : http:// |
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