Expert Resources: dyslexia


These are the items that relate to dyslexia found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • Voice Recognition - An Overview

    Alex.Barker | 04 Aug 2021
    This factsheet provides an overview of how you can use voice recognition. You can use voice recognition to control a smart home, instruct a smart speaker, and command phones and tablets. In addition, you can set reminders and interact hands-free with personal technologies. The most significant use...

  • Top tips for dyslexia and technology

    Annie Mannion | 04 Aug 2021
    This webinar will take place on Tuesday 5 October 2021, at 1pm BST.To help mark Dyslexia Week (4 - 10 October 2021) Dafydd Henke-Reed, Head of Accessibility at AbilityNet will share his expert advice about dyslexia and technology.   Register for the webinar

  • An accessible typeface designed by the BBC

    Sarah Botterill | 08 Mar 2021
    The BBC shares information creating a digitally friendly, inclusive typeface. This article is based on a session aired at TechShare Pro 2020. 

  • Dyslexia and Technology

    Alex.Barker | 07 Mar 2021
    Dyslexia is a learning difference that primarily affects the processes involved with fluent reading and writing. It is estimated that dyslexia affects approximately 1 in 10 people, with 1 in 25 classed as severely dyslexic. It is what we now recognise as a neurodivergent condition. Neurodivergence...

  • How technology can help people with dyslexia

    Annie Mannion | 27 Aug 2020
     This webinar took place on Tuesday 29 September 2020, at 1pm BST.Dafydd Henke-Reed, Principal Accessibility and Usability Consultant with AbilityNet shared his expert advice about dyslexia and technology.  

  • Free webinar: How technology can help with dyslexia

    Annie Mannion | 27 Aug 2020
    Learn about the benefits of tech and the digital barriers to avoid to aid dyslexic users online, in AbilityNet's free webinar on 29 September.

  • Three gems of accessibility wisdom about education

    Annie Mannion | 04 Mar 2020
    Read about the key accessibility-related talking points from the event including its focus on inclusion, Accessibility Statement regulations, and EdTech provision improvements.

  • Google's digital accessibility developments on show at TechSharePro 2019

    Annie Mannion | 08 Nov 2019
    Christopher Patnoe from Google chats with AbilityNet about how machine learning helps improve Google's accessibility prowess.

  • MP speaks about his acute dyslexia

    Alex.Barker | 29 Oct 2019
    With all the goings on in Westminster recently you can be forgiven for not having noticed the Tweet from Labour MP for Hove and Portslade Peter Kyle about having acute dyslexia. In the post which has been retweeted over 3,000 times Peter explains how having acute dyslexia has made his life as an MP...

  • How can DSA help students with dyslexia?

    Jessica Doyle | 24 Jun 2019
    “I didn't realise quite how much value this could add to my life" - JamesPeople with dyslexia make up around 10% of the UK population, according to the British Dyslexia Association.