Project: Dyslexia extension

[estelle]

OpenDyslexic/extension#49

OpenDyslexic is an extension used by many people with dyslexia to enable easier reading comprehension. Unforutately, the font only covers a limited, not-defined list of characters.

To prevent "missing character" box icons from showing up when OpenDyslexic is used, add the unicode-range font-descriptor to the @font-face declaration, limiting the font to only the characters in the range in both the chrome and firefox extension.

@font-face {
font-family: 'opendyslexic';
src: url('chrome-extension://MSG@@extension_id_/fonts/opendyslexic/OpenDyslexic-Bold.otf');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
unicode-range: /* range of characters in OD */
}
@font-face supports the unicode-range font descriptor, which defines the range of characters for which a given face may be used. Adding unicode-range to the above with a value reflecting the available characters in openDislexic (OD) would mean a fallback font would be used for any characters not in the range.

Figuring out the /* range of characters in OD */ is a decently large task that has to be done manually unless someone knows a quick way of doing it..

[Elchi3]

Thanks for filing this OWD project proposal.

If I understand this work correctly, this is about contributing to an Chrome Extension called OpenDyslexic that has 300k users according to the Chrome WebStore. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/opendyslexic-for-chrome/cdnapgfjopgaggbmfgbiinmmbdcglnam?hl=en

I think this proposal needs to have a bit more information in order to be actionable for us. See also the OWD prioritization criteria which guides us to make decisions.

Please complete or correct the following:

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Effort

Can you judge how much effort it is to fix the Chrome extension?

Dependencies

Do we have dependencies here? Knowledge about how to contribute to that project? Knowledge about Chrome extensions?

Community enablement

n/a
I don't think this work enables our core doc writing community. Let us know if and how it does.

Momentum

Is there a lot of community interest in this extension? Is 300k users much?

Enabling learners

I assume this extension helps people to learn about dyslexia.
It is not part of any of the learning curriculums on MDN or other sites, though, or is it?

Enabling professionals

n/a/

Underrepresented topics / ethical web

Enables easier reading comprehension for people with dyslexia.

Operational necessities

n/a
Seems like the extension would work fine even without this fix?

Addressing needs of the Web industry

n/a

[Elchi3]

Closing this as no one really knows what to do here exactly.