@skye Wow! What a pile of abelist garbage!

If there's one thing we know about any sort of neurodivergence, of which dyslexia is a form, it's that it's extremely individual. What helps one person may not help another.

Every single one of the articles I could find cited through those links (of which there weren't many) were from the perspective of typographers trying to make print resources more accessible. If you're going to print a book, you need to find one typeface that works well for everyone. You're not going to have 5 different versions in the bookstore for different types of readers. They were looking for a universal solution which doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that local solutions don't exist or that Open Dyslexic isn't one such local solution. There was also some cautioning against going "OMG Fonts!" when other factors such as spacing matter as well.

The main argument against Google fonts was that throwing them at kids to try and fix dyslexia was not a great plan and may do more harm than good. The danger in schools isn't that OpenDyslexic is harmful for the student but that ignorant parents and teachers will treat it as a silver bullet or, worse, use it as a diagnostic too. "Switching their font didn't help, so not dyslexic!" That's bad. IDK that Google disallowing the font is an actual solution to that problem or that Google Fonts maintainers should be in the position of making educational decisions, though.

But also, we're not talking about kids here. We're talking about adults who are capable of making their own decisions. Totally different ballgame.

Even within that context and giving them the most academic benefit of the doubt that I can, the whole thing is dripping with abelism. Lots of probably non-dyslexic white guys sitting around saying "Well, I don't think this will actually help, so no."

So, yeah, total abelist trash.

@Tusky, please keep those options if people are using them. I'm not, personally, but my dyslexia isn't as severe as some and is usually okay with short lines like the kind you get on a phone screen. I know of others, however, who absolutely depend on that font.

@n8