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Dyslexia "interpeter" - find sign should have some means of autocorrection #1

Closed Bluebie closed 2 years ago

Bluebie commented 2 years ago

Dyslexic users sometimes enter obscure mispellings like "interpeter" unknowingly, and can face a "no results found" response as a result. Find Sign should be able to do something in this case, to provide a reasonable result or suggestions for spelling correction.

Some options:

Bluebie commented 2 years ago

Taking advantage of the new index format which provides words lists to the browser, if a query fails to find word vectors for the word tokens in the query, fastest-levenshtein is used to find similar words in the dataset and suggest an autocorrection.

Feedback from Dyslexic users has been positive. Deployed to production.