Individuals with dyslexia struggle at explaining what it is like to have dyslexia and how they perceive letters and words differently. This led the designer Daniel Britton to create a font that aims to simulate the perceptual experience of how effortful reading can be for individuals with dyslexia (http://danielbritton.info/dyslexia). This font removes forty percent of each character stroke with the aim of increasing reading effort, and in turn empathy and understanding for individuals with dyslexia. However, its efficacy has not yet been empirically tested. In the present study, we compared participants without dyslexia reading texts in the dyslexia simulation font to a group of individuals with dyslexia reading the same texts in Times New Roman font. Results suggest that the simulation font amplifies the struggle of reading, surpassing that experienced by adults with dyslexia—as reflected in increased reading time and overall number of eye movements in the majority of typical readers reading in the simulation font. Future research could compare the performance of the Daniel Britton simulation font against a sample of beginning readers with dyslexia as well as seek to design and empirically test an adapted simulation font with an increased preserved percentage of letter strokes [Correction added on 10 December 2021, after initial online publication. Abstract has been added].

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阅读障碍模拟字体的见解：我们可以模拟阅读障碍患者的阅读困难吗？

患有阅读障碍的人很难解释阅读障碍是什么感觉，以及他们如何以不同的方式看待字母和单词。这导致设计师 Daniel Britton 创造了一种字体，旨在模拟阅读障碍患者的阅读体验（http://danielbritton.info/dyslexia）。这种字体删除了每个字符笔画的 40%，目的是增加阅读努力，进而对患有阅读障碍的人产生同理心和理解。然而，其功效尚未经过经验测试。在本研究中，我们比较了阅读阅读障碍模拟字体中没有阅读障碍的参与者与阅读 Times New Roman 字体中相同文本的阅读障碍的一组个体。结果表明，模拟字体放大了阅读的难度，超过了患有阅读障碍的成年人所经历的——这反映在使用模拟字体阅读的大多数典型读者的阅读时间增加和眼球运动总数上。未来的研究可以将 Daniel Britton 模拟字体的性能与阅读障碍的初级读者样本进行比较，并寻求设计和经验性测试一种适应的模拟字体，该字体保留的字母笔划百分比有所增加[更正于 2021 年 12 月 10 日，之后首次在线发布。摘要已添加]。未来的研究可以将 Daniel Britton 模拟字体的性能与阅读障碍的初级读者样本进行比较，并寻求设计和经验性测试一种适应的模拟字体，该字体保留的字母笔划百分比有所增加[更正于 2021 年 12 月 10 日，之后首次在线发布。摘要已添加]。未来的研究可以将 Daniel Britton 模拟字体的性能与阅读障碍的初级读者样本进行比较，并寻求设计和经验性测试一种适应的模拟字体，该字体保留的字母笔划百分比有所增加[更正于 2021 年 12 月 10 日，之后首次在线发布。摘要已添加]。