Tihs is not a tpyo

The scrambled opening paragraph of "Tihs is not a tpyo" story.

Inspiration

If up to 15% of the U.S. population has dyslexia according to HHS, that means 85% of us don't know what that experience is like.

We can't sympathize with what we've never experienced. So, I wanted to make a sympathy experiment with struggling to read.

The typoglycemia internet meme inspired me to write interactive prose that explored this effect with greater depth.

What it does

I wrote a story to help the rest of us sympathize with how a dyslexic may struggle with reading. Dyslexia is multi-faceted, so this story is dynamic. It lives in the browser and each time you load it, you see the same story but with a different arrangement of letters. Each time, reading is a novel challenge. Each time you're reminded that some people have a different read on the world than you do.

How we built it

The story was written by me, by hand this weekend. The web page needs no backend. The draft is the front-end, along with a small sprinkle of vanilla JavaScript to provide the effect and some thoughtful typography via Tailwind CSS.