On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Given that you do have statistics, how did all the huha around the ULS "performance issue" and now all this hit the use of the functionality for dyslexic people?
I'm not sure what statistics you're referring to.
We know that it helps but how do we help people with dyslexia? They are "only" 7 to 10% of a population.. I have not done the arithmetic but would that be more than 7 to 10% of all our readers? (what is the breakdown in fonts for our total public)
In the FAQ (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh#FAQ) we specifically mentioned enhancing the view for dyslexic users as one of the reasons why the body font color was changed. To go in to more detail about other aspects... dyslexic users is one of the reasons why we did not suggest we switch to a serif for body text along with the headers. As far as I understand, it's also a reason to not specify a more humanist-style sans-serif like Open Sans, Verdana, or DejaVu where the letterforms have more calligraphic characteristics compared to a Grotesk-style sans like Arial, Helvetica, and Nimbus.
Of course there is also the question about whether to deliver Open Dyslexic as a webfont option via ULS. I don't know why it was removed and how that decision was made, so I can't comment on it.
Steven