[drcross]

I know someone with very bad dyslexia and it's not that he didn't get a basic education, it's that he can't understand written text or menu items more than one layer deep. He calls if wants to communicate which is very endearing but I also have major misgivings with modern UI paradigms. The "three dashed lines" that you see everywhere are infuriating.

[zdragnar]

Do visual icons like the three lines for a menu help or hurt the usability of an application for people with dyslexia?

I had assumed iconography was a boon for illiterate people- thinking primarily of symbols on shop signs or a striped barbers pole, for example.

[justsomehnguy]

> Do visual icons like the three lines

They hurt usability even for people perfectly capable of reading. Especially when Material fanboy fill everything with whitespace and bans black for the text.