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
See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25481/ and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/40539. Screenshot http://imm.io/FLTY
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