The stuff of Kryton

An eclectic selection of technology with some cookery


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Dyslexia Browser Tips

Hints & tips for an easier browsing experience. This is mainly looking at Spellcheckers and their availability when filling in web forms. I’ve dabbled in the past with making browsers change how you see the site but it did not work well. If I make any progress I’ll update/ link to this page.

Safari

Spell checker (MacOS, iOS, & iPadOS)

Uses operating system spell checker by default.

Firefox

As with a lot of open source software it can do it and do it well but you may need to set it up (depending on Operating System) setting it up can be quite the challenge, At least they don’t make you use vim to make the changes this time).

Spell checker (iOS)

Appears to be by default, suspect this is related to iOS

Spell checker (Windows)

Firefox in Windows has two options that need to be enabled:

Menu button -> Settings -> General -> Language and Appearance -> Language -> “Check your spelling as you type”

check the above setting is enabled (ticked)

if it’s not working try:

about:config

accept the risk and Continue

search for spellcheck

change from 0 to 1 or 2

layout.spellcheck.Default 2

Edge

Spell checker (Windows)

Appears to give you full office spelling & grammer by default.

Spell checker (iOS)

Appears to be by default, suspect this is related to iOS

Chrome

Spell checker (Windows)

Settings -> Languages -> Spell Check

It has a basic spellchecker and enhanced which sends your text to Google search engine

Spell checker (iOS)

Appears to be by default, suspect this is related to iOS

DuckDuckGo

I’ve only found this as an app on iOS & Android

Spell checker (iOS)

Appears to be by default, suspect this is related to iOS

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