 Good evening publishers, how are you I? Like to hear the enthusiasm we've been here for quite some time today I know I have so it's good to see that you guys are still very excited to learn more today So let's get started I won't hold you all up because we don't have a whole lot of time and then before you know It will be on a boat Checking out all the cool architecture that the city has to offer alrighty, so Who am I I got some really cool quirky pictures To liven it up a little bit as she mentioned Livy. I'm Jeanette Washington I started my career as a speech pathologist So I worked with individuals who had stuttering and fluency issues speech delays or impediments and I really enjoyed it I worked in a public school system in Jackson, Mississippi And so I'm sure you can imagine some of the southern draws that I had to experience and the African-American vernacular that I had to assess with a lot of my students I worked in a K through 12 setting so I worked from anything from kindergarten all the way up to high school students going up to college I worked with them and helped them to get more confident about the way that they would speak Alrighty, so after that I moved to Detroit My son and I Decided to move to Detroit so we can be closer to family and that's him. He was crying this morning because he wanted to be here so bad He says he coins himself as wanting to be a robotics teacher when he grows up. So we'll see We'll see how that unfolds in the meantime between moving here I learned how to program at a boot camp of a 12 week boot camp in Detroit It was one of the most stressful things that I've ever done in my life I didn't think that it would be as difficult as it was because I've always been one of those Students that thought I knew it all teacher couldn't tell me anything So after getting my master's degree. I was like a code in boot camp. I mean how hard could that really be? But I was learning back in so Java just had me just really stressed for a lack of better words so my talk is on dyslexia and how it relates to to coding and to a lot of My publishers you guys are going into the websites and making sure that everything is accessible and that everything meets a particular Standard for your viewers and for your audience. So dyslexia is Comes from a Greek word this meaning difficulty and lexia means language So you have difficulties with language very simple enough But to get more complex with it It's a neurological disorder and it's found to be genetic So if someone in your family has it, it's likely that you will possess or exhibit those Issues with language So what do you see and does this help? I am going to pull up a simulation of what I will say a typical dyslexic learner would see but Because obviously it's a spectrum. So some of it is going to be low a lot of it is going to be moderate Then you have severe dyslexia. However I'm going to give you guys opportunity to check out this Website I want to get it larger and tell me if you can read I'll ask the volunteer to read for me I'm going to zoom in so we can get it larger. All right. Anybody want to throw a finger hand up To read this It looks looks quite speak up so we can hear you So this is just a template that I found actually on github Someone wanted to create a simulation of I think they said their roommate Experiences dyslexia and they wanted to create a simulation of what they thought dyslexia was with the help of their roommate who actually Has or possesses it so as you see it says a friend who has dyslexia described to me how she Experiences reading she can read but it takes a lot of Concentration and the Letters seem to jump around I remembered reading about Typo glimpsia Wouldn't it be possible to do it? Interactively on a website with JavaScript sure it would Feel like making a book Book mark list of this or something All right, so you guys get a gist of it again in most cases is not this difficult for a dyslexic person to read but this gives you a little bit of Instance of what some of our counterparts are experiencing because with dyslexia you have difficulties with blending sounds you have difficulties with Acknowledging and recognizing letters and With those two together it can be difficult to even say words that you just saw or to remember The the words to something that you've read before so moving on grab my slide back up again All right, I Located a font called dyslexia font That has been statistically proven to be a Better font for individuals who experience severe dyslexia because the letters are Very distinct. They're very unique as you know as we are coming up in grammar school We oftentimes confuse our bees and our peas and our cues and a lot of times those letters They're synonymous to us But after first grade and you've had a full year of writing and reading instruction if you are still Switching those bees cues and peas then at that point an intervention is usually made a teacher steps in and someone starts to Assess you to see whether or not you do possess dyslexia So with this particular font as you will see I'm trying to get it a little bigger So you all will see some of the distinctive Features of it like the P has a large bottom the L has a slight little Rivet beneath it so that you can distinctively tell that from an I I'd say so the T The O is a little larger than what we would generally see And again, this is called dyslexia font if anyone is interested You're doing a little bit more research on how this font can be more helpful to your sites or just For you in general with reading it may come as a very helpful All right, so we're going to move on and everyone you ever meet knows something you don't this is a quote from my favorite scientist I grew up with him. I'm a 80s baby So Bill Nye the science guy taught me everything I know about a volcano's earthquakes Dinosaurs and the whole nine so we're moving on so that we can start discussing Some hacks or some plug-ins and things that individuals with dyslexia can utilize on their site Or as they're creating or publishing sites so we have audio readers internet filters and Syntax practice now the reason we saw the slide previously that said Everyone that you ever meet knows something you don't because this is your time to provide us with input We all have something that we're bringing to the table different experiences different things that we've had Challenges at work and maybe some of you do possess some language based learning disorders What is helpful for you? I'll take some hands and you can tell us what kind of audio readers do you use and Why you think it's helpful and just share this is a time for us to connect and Share with one another so we can all get to the next level and push the envelope Any audio readers that you all prefer over the others? not quite When I say audio readers, I mean away and Actually when I think of audio reader I mean like a book that you can read like a Kindle that you can access and put a plug in so that it'll read Allow however, I want to know some things that you can implement on a website that will help read the text from the website I know I came to your talk earlier and you had some really great Thoughts and some ideologies about usage So if you don't mind sharing something that we could use to help us hear the words on a site So that's the one thing Anybody else have some cool ways that they think or that they've used to read text from a website or from a book I Use dragon naturally speaking and The natural language processors. It's pretty real-to-life. It doesn't sound really Like robotic so that's one that I use and again I don't have a Mac, but I have a HP and I believe there is Some capabilities on my HP where they have someone that can go ahead and read for you go ahead With Mac you guys are gonna make us all run out and get Macs and iPhones, huh? Yes, okay. All right, cool. So with internet filters a lot of times individuals with dyslexia will also have ADHD actually 60% of Individuals who possess dyslexia have ADHD. So it's hard to stay focused on one task So I've heard people in the past when they're working on a project Sometimes they unplug from their router just so they can stay focused and they don't have to jump into another site Are there some other and I know another internet filter is called k9 But does anybody know any other filters where it will allow you to stay focused? Working or publishing on one item and not skipping and dodging and jumping to other sites No Yes, cool. Thank you, and I will go ahead. Good. That's super helpful because I know me if I'm working on one thing Somehow I'm on Facebook and I'm in somebody's 2015 vacation photos I don't know how I got there, but I'm there and I'm just like invested. So we'll definitely keep that in mind when we are Online working on a publishing assignment and finally syntax practice and after this I'm gonna Hand it on over to our next lightning speaker syntax practice is something that It's usually built into the computers But again with dyslexia that's something that a lot of people have issues with because they hear the words differently than how the words are spelled so Using grammar checkers or things that are built into the computer. I know if you have certain IDAs EA's They have it built into where if you spell a line of code incorrectly or you put in a wrong Variable it will key or clue you in to let you know exactly what's going on or that there was a grammatical error So that is it. I am I Was going to tell you guys about some other people who? has dyslexia, but you can see them here and I'm gonna Let it go from here. Thank you so much. Very well