👉 /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

codebytere posted on Dec 08, 2019

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

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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.