A web browser designed to make the internet more accessible for individuals with dyslexia.
The modern web is a sea of text. For the 10-15% of the population with dyslexia, navigating this sea can be a daily struggle. Crowded text, distracting layouts, and difficult-to-read fonts can turn a simple browsing session into a frustrating and overwhelming experience.
Dyslexim is a web browser built from the ground up with the needs of dyslexic users in mind. By providing a suite of tools to customise the reading experience, Dyslexim empowers users to transform any webpage into a comfortable and readable format.
Our approach is based on proven accessibility principles:
- Readable Fonts: We provide a selection of dyslexia-friendly fonts, including OpenDyslexic, to reduce letter confusion and improve readability.
- Enhanced Spacing: Increased line and letter spacing helps to de-clutter text and make it easier to follow.
- Focused Reading: Our unique gaze-highlighting feature acts as a digital reading ruler, guiding the user's focus and preventing them from losing their place.
- Text to Speech: Hover over a text for a specified period and get a narration of the text.
- Customisation: Users can customise the highlight colour, font, and text alignment to suit their personal preferences.
- Gaze-Activated Highlighting: A real-time highlight that follows the user's gaze (simulated with the mouse), keeping them focused on the text they are reading.
- Font Customization: Choose from a variety of dyslexia-friendly fonts, including OpenDyslexic, Poppins, and Roboto.
- Highlight Customization: Change the color and alignment of the highlight box to fit your needs.
- Onboarding Experience: A simple, one-time setup to personalize your browsing experience from the start.
- Modern, Tabbed Interface: A clean and intuitive browser interface that is easy to navigate.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/rohankishore/Dyslexim/
- Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the application:
python dyslexim/main.py
- Onboarding: When you first launch Dyslexim, you will be greeted with an onboarding screen. Here, you can choose your preferred highlight color, font, and text alignment.
- Gaze Highlighting: Simply move your mouse over the text you want to read, and the highlight will follow.
- Toggle Highlighting: You can toggle the gaze highlighting on and off for the current tab by clicking the eye icon in the toolbar.
- https://userway.org/blog/improving-websites-for-users-with-dyslexia/
- https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/face_landmarker
- https://userway.org/blog/best-fonts-for-dyslexia/
- https://opendyslexic.org/
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.