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DesignOps toolchain theme builder for accessibility inclusion using Atomic Design.
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Bionic Text #1023

Open kppetersen opened 2 months ago

kppetersen commented 2 months ago

Problem/Concern

There is an opportunity to enhance the product to include an accessibility feature for Neurodivergent Folks.

Proposed Solution

Create the solution to have Bionic Text as an accessibility feature.

aaronreed708 commented 2 months ago

@lwnoble had discussed this a little in our 09/05/24 Theme Builder status call. The idea here is to introduce support for Bionic Reading (https://bionic-reading.com/br-method/) in Theme Builder. Lise thinks that this could possible be done as an overlay (similar to the dyslexic overlay) if bionic reading fonts exist. Otherwise, we talked about introducing a component that could render text in a Bionic Reading format. In the latter case, its usefulness would be limited to only those who use our components in their applications.

aaronreed708 commented 2 months ago

@lwnoble believes that this needs to be a component so overlay won't be a possibility.

Because no studies have been concluded that endorse Bionic Reading, we should maybe do some more research on this prior to implementing a component.