DyslexEase

Helping Dyslexic students in an educational setting.

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Made By: Selin Bacaz (selinb@udel.edu), Brandon Nauta (bnauta@udel.edu)

Inspiration

Our inspiration was the many people with ""invisible " disabilities that get overlooked in an academic setting every day. Most special needs help in academic settings goes for students with visible disabilities, leaving students with, for example, dyslexia, out to fend for themselves. There are no easy options to help dyslexic people so we decided to make one.

What it does

Our website currently takes in a file and lets you customize the text and background to make it easier to read. It has many functionalities to help dyslexic students, including dyslexic friendly fonts.

How we built it

We built it using a combination of HMTL, CSS, and Typescript. Website format

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges with more difficult code like printing out, anything with AI, etc. This was mostly because of the 34 hour challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the website in general ! This is both me and my partner's first time creating a website this intricate and we are so excited to see where our website and idea can go.

What we learned

We learned a lot about the challenges that Dyslexic students have to face in an academic setting.

What's next for DyslexEase

We have many things we want to add onto DyslexEase in the future, some things include:

  1. Spaced out small words to bring more attention and not skip: anxiety,ThE killer_OF_ good Presentations
  2. Using PDF scanners to scan PDFs and scanned pictures to turn into modifiable and printable text on the website
  3. A binder/ruler to block out next sentences (so they are not skipped)
  4. Option to switch letters around (e.g. ‘d’ and ‘b’), (‘cat’ to ‘tac’)
  5. AI that can simplify scholarly texts into an easier- to- read format
  6. Ability for teachers to save their dyslexic students’ format preferences for easy access in future work
  7. Built in AI voice reader to help with phonetics and head voice
  8. Website form eliminates need for downloading apps on school computers-> school friendly!

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