Readapt - Your digital text reading companion. Adapt text your way | Product Hun...

Your digital text reading companion. Adapt text your way

Hey Product Hunt! I’ve hunted a really cool product focussing on making the digital world more accessible! The folks at the Contentsquare Foundation (@tyoung, @sylvainzimmer) have released their first version of Readapt. Offered free to the public to help those with reading challenges (like dyslexia and poor vision), Readapt helps to adapt text on websites and Word documents to users’ individual needs and preferences. Readapt is available as a Chrome browser extension and a Microsoft Word add-in.

Reading is critical for education, self-development, and communication. But reading challenges like dyslexia means that 10-15% of the global population struggle to read and can find digital text inaccessible. This is especially the case for dyslexic children in school. Not being able to read slows their education and can have a severe impact on their social and communication skills, as well as their emotional life. Readapt's goal is to help make digital text more accessible so that these folks can maximize their reading comfort and academic/professional success. Chances are you'll know someone who will find our tool useful in their daily life.

Readapt can adapt text in English or French, and features text adaptation techniques known to help those with reading challenges. Different challenges require different techniques, so users can pick and configure what works for them. Below is a summary of what they can configure:

- Font - Font size - Spacing between letters, words and lines of text - Distinguishing syllables with colours and their opacity - Distinguish different phonemes (sounds) - Distinguish different graphemes (letters) - Distinguish lines of text - Distinguish liaisons (French only) - Distinguish silent letters

Readapt is also open source! The Contentsquare Foundation invites those in the developer community to check out their Github repository and collaborate with them on this excellent cause and improve the solution over time.

They’re excited to hear your feedback so please let them know if you have any questions.