Sabrina Dent, a web designer hailing from Ireland, has blogged about her struggle with dyslexia and dyscalculia and web applications today in the post, "Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design". For some context, she links to the Wikipedia article on dyscalculia and highlights the bits that apply to her:
- An inability to read a sequence of numbers, or transposing them when repeated, such as turning 56 into 65.
- Problems with differentiating between left and right.
- Difficulty with everyday tasks like checking change and reading analogue clocks.
Sabrina discusses her experience with the examples of login screens (specifically the steps that require more detailed information than a username and password), phone numbers, and booking calendars.
It's a brief post, but it's insightful. As a web designer she understands the motivation for these types of interfaces, but that doesn't mean they are easy for her to use.
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