Free spell checker for dyslexics

[baratron]

Heard about this through email from college. Don't know much more except that it's a spell checker written by dyslexic people so you can spell things really strangely and it'll still figure out the right word. Not sure if it does British or American spelling or both. Anyway, just passing on the word.

http://www.ghotit.com/home.shtml

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Huh -- interesting. In hindsight of course it seems obvious that a good spell checker for dyslexic misspellings would likely want to be a bit different from the usual methods of converting to phonemes and looking for similar ones, but it wasn't something that I'd thought about before -- and I suspect many spell-checker authors hadn't either!

[barakta]

How does your college's email list work? Do you get invited onto it when contacting disability team and then get weekly/monthly/other emails?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you get invited so much as automatically put on ;) The emails arrive when Mark has something to tell us. It could be a job hunting event for disabled or dyslexic people, or information about a new piece of assistive tech (like this one), or a link to a site to protest about some major body doing something clueless or discriminatory, or the manifestoes of people standing for Disabled Students Officer.

Everyone on the list gets all the emails, on the basis that you might have disabilities that you haven't disclosed or friends with the disability who haven't contacted the Disability Office. I found that annoying at first, but I've since realised it can be useful. I suppose the emails come every couple of weeks on average.