I spent ages trying to get Orca to read selected text but there are a mind boggling number of options and while the GNOME (Ubuntu's default desktop manager) documentation is pretty good it never really worked. On further reading there seems to be some… more »
Tag: "dyslexia"
Just finished watching "Educating Yorkshire: One year on". Still feel great empathy for Musharaf.
People often ask me what it's like being dyslexic and it's like being Musharaf. All your will is constantly being exhausted trying to convert the pattern… more »
Been using Yii for a while now and there are several functions that I need to use from time to time that don't seem to want to stay in my brain. Most of them seem kind of obvious now that they are in front of me which is why this is so annoying!
It's… more »
I think my vocabulary is pretty small compared to my contemporaries. In order to fix this, I'm making more of an effort to listen out for new words. Now when I hear a one that I don't understand, I take the time to look it up; even if it means pausing t… more »
One of the greatest obstacles facing a dyslexic is how do you look up a word if you can't spell it? Most of the time I can recognise the correct spelling so can pick it out of the list provided by the spell checker. But what if your spell checker can't… more »