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Thread #124046   Message #2738378
Posted By: Jack Campin
04-Oct-09 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Things that help people with Dyslexia
Subject: RE: BS: Things that help people with Dyslexia
Apropos the Faldingworth site: I have my browser set (as a default) to ignore colours, fonts and backgrounds defined by pages - everything comes up in the text and background colours and in the fonts I choose. Can't most browsers do that?

BTW, the Faldingworth home page is missing a <!DOCTYPE> declaration - the effect of that is that a browser doesn't know which standard of HTML is intended. Mine is set to expect HTML 4.0 Strict by default, so all those <font ...> tags show up as errors and wouldn't be interpreted even if I did allow you to set the fonts I see (FrontPage has got it wrong, you may need to fix this by hand). Loads very fast with no other errors, though.

I once worked with a guy who had read up some user interface research that showed people made less mistakes when their screen background was snot-green. So that was what he used, all day. It made me feel queasy just looking at it across the room.