Initial description: Person with aphasia hears screen reader output that matches the visual sequence
Updated description: Preety is able to use a screen reader to help her read because the visual order matches the order in the code
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Preety is a middle school student who enjoys literature class in particular. She has substantial difficulty reading due to dyslexia.
Preety is reading a printed book at a desk at home, and appearing to have difficulty with that (eg. following the text with her finger and leaning in to the book).
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She prefers websites and electronic books, which she can read with her text-to-speech software. It reads the text aloud and highlights it at the same time. [We hear the screen reader read aloud part of a sentence.]
We see passages of text on a tablet computer, and the individual words are being highlighted one by one as they are read aloud.
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She can read much more quickly when she can hear and see the text at the same time.
We see Preety reading on a tablet computer and looking much more relieved and content.
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Unfortunately, the reading order on some websites and apps isn’t coded correctly. The text appears correctly but the reading software jumps around in a confusing order.
We see the screen again, and focus on the text highlighting jump from a paragraph to a sidebar instead of to the next paragraph then back again to the next paragraph. Pretty is irritated by this jumping around.
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When developers properly code the correct reading order, the reading sequence is meaningful and Preety can enjoy her literature class.
Same scene as before but this time the text highlighting moves directly to the next paragraph (which is the last paragraph in the section), then to the sidebar after that.