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favourite fonts or enlarge their favourite font size. Allow them to do that.
The "dyslexic" fonts, they have strange shapes that help you differentiate
between a B and a D and a P and a G. You can kind of tell when a letter
is upside down or something like that. While they make sense, they don't
actually work. So Gareth Ford Williams I talked about him earlier, the
group is the readability group, they did a mass of research and what they
found were the best fonds were SF Pro, which I believe is Apple, Segoe,
Ui, red hat text, Atkins, and verdana. I believe these all sensor fonts.
The worst fonts included two of the dyslexic fonts and comic sans. A lot
of times you will say you can use comic sans or the dyslexic fonts. Not
necessarily true. I void large fonts centred content. You generally want
to do left alignment. Don't do justified alignment where the left and the
right are even. That causes unusual shapes, gaps between the words and
people with dyslexia instead of reading left or right will go through the
gaps in the words where the gaps are inconsistent. You also notice that
my slides are not quite in black, they are an off white with an off black
text. Some people have a hard time reading high contrast. Use slightly
off backgrounds and text colours, it really helps. So I'm looking at my
time, I have about 10 minutes.
I was hoping I had plenty of time for this one. I want to talk about
research I did on sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is a genetic
disease that affects primarily African-Americans across the United States,
South America, Africa. It was normally called the malaria gulf. It is a
disease that causes the blood cells - normally they are soft and flexible, to
become sticky, hard, they actually flop over, they get stuck in the
capillaries and arteries. What happens is when they do that the blood
can't get past them and then you're - your fingers, your toes or the parts
of your body start getting starved for oxygen, they start dying and it
creates a crisis - extremely painful. But often the people that have sickle