My daughter has dyslexia - which means she finds it unusually hard to read. Words appear to "wiggle" on the page. She's found that placing a transparent coloured overlay on top of a page helps to relieve this.
Announcing ProLexia - a software version of a coloured overlay - which can be placed on top of text, say Word or Wikipedia, to stop letters dancing.
ProLexia is a simple application created using .NET 4.5 (though, arguably I could downgrade it to 2.0). Essentially it is a transparent Windows Form that is maximized and always on top - but allows the user to click through to applications underneath. The colour and opacity are set via an options menu accessible from the system tray.
Most of the values are set using standard Windows Forms options - removing the task bar, creating a system tray icon, using the standard colour picker. However the click-through behaviour is implemented using Windows API functions via PInvoke.
ProLexia 1.0 can be downloaded from GitHub. The source code is also available under the MIT licence.
Announcing ProLexia - a software version of a coloured overlay - which can be placed on top of text, say Word or Wikipedia, to stop letters dancing.
ProLexia is a simple application created using .NET 4.5 (though, arguably I could downgrade it to 2.0). Essentially it is a transparent Windows Form that is maximized and always on top - but allows the user to click through to applications underneath. The colour and opacity are set via an options menu accessible from the system tray.
Most of the values are set using standard Windows Forms options - removing the task bar, creating a system tray icon, using the standard colour picker. However the click-through behaviour is implemented using Windows API functions via PInvoke.
ProLexia 1.0 can be downloaded from GitHub. The source code is also available under the MIT licence.
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