Other Dyslexic Orientated Websites

www.xtraordinarypeople.com
This is a website that orientates around how dyslexics can achieve high standards. Focusing on what famous people are dyslexic and what they have achieved.

From the website:
"Xtraordinary People is a charitable initiative supported by leading dyslexia charities and famous dyslexics alike. 'Changing the face of dyslexia' means highlighting dyslexic children's talents and strengths, campaigning for teachers to be trained to recognise and support dyslexic children's abilities and difficulties."

I found that it offered a different "dyslexic friendly" website done with the same template. This offers a choice of text size, but for some strange reason puts a white background with black text, which is known to be problematic for many dyslexics. It offers news and success stories, but does not have a community or story share ability. I find that just having famous people makes it feel a bit unreachable, this is why I want to have a community within my website.


www.ukdyslexialive.co.uk
This is a website that provides links to products that provide support to dyslexics. It also provides information to support parents that think their child may have dyslexia.

Although this website provides a nice amount of information and products it is fairly text heavy. It is unclear who this website is aimed at with the more childish pictures but the information seems more aimed at parents and adults.


www.dyslexiacentre.co.uk
This website is from the BDC - Bristol Dyslexia Centre. It offers information about dyslexia in an informal and colloquial way interspersed with pictures which is very user friendly.

This website is where I got my idea for my website name:
"In fact the right hemisphere of the dyslexic brain may be bigger than the ordinary brain. (See Fig.2)" Which I think is a nice thought being dyslexic myself!

This website provides a short, simple test to indicate whether or not you may need to have a test or investigation. The test varies with age range which makes it more applicable to each person. There are also very clear instuctions, which always helps.

There is a comments section, but nowhere to add your own comments so these must be added by the website administrator.

I like the overall feel of this website, it seems well put together and offers a good amount of information without overloading the reader. There are seperate sections that are aimed more at parents and teachers that are more text heavy showing that each section relates to it's target audience.


Another useful website to keep in mind:
www.hobo-web.co.uk
This website provides a checklist for web developers to ensure that they do not create problems for dyslexic users.