Highlighting of dyslexia fonts so that they can be found more easily

[JL710]

Description

On the discord there was a forum post about dyslexic fonts in the web app. The person had issues finding them and to be honest I did not now that they where fonts that are good for dyslexic people. I suggest that the fonts good for dyslexia are highlighted.

Alternatively it might be cool to have some kind of docs page or similar for dyslexic people. This page could include a list of web app available fonts for dyslexic people and how to change the font in the web app to a more dyslexic friendly one.

Use Case

This would make it more easily for people, especially the ones with dyslexia, to find those fonts.

[cady-b]

I very much support this request! :)
Highlighting accessible options is sweet and could probably be solved similarly to UA-1 in the PDF Export menu, though slight adjustments like an additional color highlight may be needed for the much longer font lists.

The docs addition could probably work in or around the Accessibility Guide (could be contributed by anyone since the docs are in typst/typst now).

[isuffix]

I think this would actually be best served with a generic system for distinguishing/filtering fonts. We could display a set of icons for Dyslexic/Serif/Sans/Math/hasBold/hasItalic/hasSmallcaps etc. before/after the font and then filter them by clicking icons or via a search bar with options at the top.

[reknih]

Is there evidence that dyslexic fonts benefit the general dyslexic population? As far as I know, the literature is inconclusive on that. I would be hesitant to make a general recommendation to use fonts designed to accommodate dyslexia in the accessibility guide if there is not enough affirmative evidence that it is an accessibility net-positive.

Do you know of a published meta-analysis of the benefits of dyslexia fonts?

EDIT: For example, this meta analysis was not able to show "substantial benefits": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42536336/