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Web code lets you simulate the jarring experience of dyslexia
Victor Widell, a Swedish web developer, released a piece of web code called dsxyliea a couple of weeks ago via GitHub. The code sets out to emulate an experience with dyslexia by keeping the first and last letter in each word the same, but mixing up the letters in the middle, to give the appearance of letters shifting and jumping in and out of place. Widell shows the code being applied to a Wikipedia article to illustrate how it can adapt to different pieces of text the user might be interested in. As much as the internet is known for its memes, gifs,…