Ben Halpern
Posted on January 21, 2020
👉 /settings/ux
DEV now offers Open-Dyslexic as a customization option.
Thank you to @codebytere for creating the PR and @bnb for opening the issue.
feat: add per-user Open Dyslexic font setting
#5037
What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)
- [ ] Refactor
- [x] Feature
- [ ] Bug Fix
- [ ] Documentation Update
Description
This PR adds a new user-customizable font, OpenDyslexic, to /settings/misc. OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia; it will allow for users of Dev.to to more easily read posts and thus serves to improve general accessibility of Dev.to.
Related Tickets & Documents
Closes https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/5036.
Mobile & Desktop Screenshots/Recordings (if there are UI changes)
Added to documentation?
- [ ] docs.dev.to
- [ ] readme
- [x] no documentation needed
The accessibility of our platform and the web in general is a big deal for us. Anything we ship to improve things is a win. As we gradually march towards generalization of our underlying engine, we look forward to propogating this work to more and more folks.
👉 /settings/ux
Happy coding ❤️
Posted on January 21, 2020
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