Dyslexia, readability and accessibility

How to Teach and Learn with ChatGPT: AI and new horizons for assistive technologies

Talks Bett 2023, ExCeL London · 31 March 2023 · Talk

Speech Recognition: Art of the Possible

Talks Digifest 2022 · 2022 · Organised

Learning innovation showcase: Workshop on new technologies to support reading productivity

Talks Becoming Well Read, online conference organized by Keele University · March 2021 · Talk

Towards a Digital Reading Lab: Discovering and Learning New Affordances

Dominik Lukeš

Research Becoming Well Read · 2021 · Paper

Using online corpus for literacy teachers

Talks BDA International Conference · March 2016 · Talk

Creating Bridges: The Role of Exploratory Design Research in an Intelligent Tutoring System Project

Dominik Lukeš

Research Interacting with Computers · 2016 · Journal article

Building a Phonics Engine for Automated Text Guidance

Dominik Lukeš

Research IISA 2015 proceedings · 2015 · Paper

Dyslexia Friendly Reader — Prototype and Designs — IISA presentation

Dominik Lukeš

Research IISA presentation · 2015 · Talk with slides

Dyslexia Friendly Reader: Prototype, Designs, and Exploratory Study

Dominik Lukeš

Research IISA 2015 proceedings · 2015 · Paper

Three abstracts for OER15: Licensing talking points, Models of OER production, and OERs and Accessibility

Writing Researchity · 1 December 2014 · Blog post

This note presents three conference abstracts on open licensing and accessibility, early licensing decisions in projects, and sustainable models for producing open educational resources.

Reading on e-readers, tablets and phones: Hardware and software for inclusive literacy

Talks EICE Manchester · February 2014 · Talk

Bring Your Own Policy: Why Accessibility Standards Need to Be Contextually Sensitive

Dominik Lukeš

Research Ariadne 71 · 2013 · Journal article

The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics [updated]

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 28 September 2012 · Blog post

The piece argues that accessible writing requires attention to context, text structure, and language variation beyond mechanical readability rules.

Turning Wikipedia into textbooks: Tools, Ideals and Accessibility

Writing techczech.net · 22 September 2012 · Blog post

The piece explains how to assemble Wikipedia articles into textbooks and compares the workflow, accessibility, and alternatives for collaborative book creation.

"Why didn't anyone tell me about this?": What every learning technologist should know about accessible documents

Writing techczech.net · 14 September 2012 · Blog post

The talk explains five practical technologies for making educational documents more accessible to people who find reading difficult.

What every Learning Technologist should know about accessible documents

Talks ALT Conference Manchester · September 2012 · Talk

Make your own audio book using text to speech - Save your eyes, time

Writing techczech.net · 23 July 2012 · Blog post

The piece explains how to convert ebook text into MP3 audiobook files with text-to-speech software.

Word 2013 Preview Accessibility and Usability Review - First Impressions [Update 2 on uninstall]

Writing techczech.net · 21 July 2012 · Blog post

The piece reviews Word 2013 Preview's accessibility, reading, editing, navigation, PDF, and installation behaviour against Word 2010.

4 things you thought you knew about screen readers!

Writing techczech.net · 2 April 2012 · Blog post

The talk proposal corrects four common misconceptions about designing web content for screen-reader users.

Helping Moodle users with print disabilities

Talks MoodleMoot · April 2012 · Talk

‘Does He Take Sugar?’: The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-Read Language

Dominik Lukeš

Research Ariadne 70 · 2012 · Journal article

Online Corpora for Literacy Teachers — Part I

Dominik Lukeš

Research Dyslexia Review 23(2), pp. 23–25 · 2012 · Journal article

Online Corpora for Literacy Teachers — Part II

Dominik Lukeš

Research Dyslexia Review 23(3), pp. 19–21 · 2012 · Journal article

links for 2011-04-23

Writing techczech.net · 24 April 2011 · Blog post

The digest links to a URL shortener that presents linked pages in a more readable format.

links for 2011-04-17

Writing techczech.net · 18 April 2011 · Blog post

The digest links to a presentation about technologies that support students with dyslexia.

What Should Literacy Teachers Know about Language and Linguistics?

Dominik Lukeš

Research Dyslexia Review 22(1) · 2011 · Journal article

Dyslexia Symposium

Talks November 2010 · Organised

links for 2010-09-05

Writing techczech.net · 6 September 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to interactive phonics activities for literacy teaching and dyslexia support.

links for 2010-07-10

Writing techczech.net · 11 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to resources on QR codes, text encoding, federated identity, and dyslexia-friendly typography.

Delicious links for 2010-07-03

Writing techczech.net · 4 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects resources on accessible technology, educational collaboration, social media, language learning, and open educational resources.

Speech Recognition a Decade Later

Dominik Lukeš

Research Dyslexia Review 21(3), pp. 20–21 · 2010 · Journal article

Academic Productivity

Guides Interactive guide

An interactive resource that helps users understand what blocks their academic productivity, find strategies that reduce cognitive load, and choose assistive technologies, software tools and hardware. Sections cover strategies,…

Dyslexia Guide

Guides Interactive guide

A guide to dyslexia organised as lessons: why learn about dyslexia, what dyslexia is and its immediate impacts, structured and undistorted text, listening to text with text-to-speech tools, dictating instead of writing, and the visual…

Foundations of Readability

Guides Interactive guide

Evidence-based guidance on making documents and presentations readable and accessible, drawing on cognitive load theory and reading strategy research. It sets out five principles (space, chunks, guides, information structure and simple…

LDD Navigator

Guides Web resource

A resource for professionals working with people who have learning difficulties and disabilities in the justice system. It helps identify behaviours that may indicate a learning difficulty, understand what might cause them and find…

Principles of Readability

Guides Notion guide

A guide to clear-writing principles, with examples and checklists.

readability-skill

Agent skills Agent skill

Helps write more readable text and design more readable slides.

ReadabilityScout

Apps Desktop apps

Analyse the readability of any text file on your Mac. Eight formulas, grade consensus, sentence-level detail.