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BeeLine Reader has been around for about 10 years. The color gradient feature is designed to address various visual challenges of reading such as visual tracking and line transition errors (accidentally skipping or repeating lines). It is based on perception
research by then-graduate-student Nick Lum which showed that gradual color gradients across text could increase visual reading rates by up to 50% (compared to using no reading aids). It can be used alone or in conjunction with text-to-speech. Think of this
feature as serving a function similar to other features or strategies to aid visual tracking such as dynamic color highlighting, increased line spacing, sentence or line masking, etc. – just another visual option to consider for readers with dyslexia, ADHD,
and certain vision difficulties. It's included as a visual tracking option in various e-reader apps, most notably Bookshare's Web Reader.
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I am responding to someone who contacted me off list about how to solve a different accessibility matter and they indicated that they were using Beeline Reader.<br class="">
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