We have the technology to make an important improvement for the usability of Wikipedia. The technology exists in the ability to provide web fonts from within MediaWiki. The opportunity is to improve the readability for people who are dyslexic.
What it takes is to enable web fonts functionality on for instance the English Wikipedia and allow the use of the Open-Dyslexic font. The license is a bit weird for a font but it is within what the WMF is comfortable with; the CC-by license.
It should not take long to appreciate why this is a good idea.. it should not take too much after that to help people with dyslexia.
Thanks,
GerardM
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See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25481/ and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/40539. Screenshot http://imm.io/FLTY
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