Mind that visual reading – I actually do not know about tactile, but I'd guess it may be similar – isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words. Here, similarity helps a lot. (Otherwise, you have not only learn the new alphabet, but the gestalt of all the words anew.)
Regarding Braille, my grandmother became mostly blind at old age. Having maintained an interest in books, while finding herself increasingly restricted with regard to her radius of action, she tried to learn Braille, but eventually gave up. At her age, she couldn't feel the differences anymore. Tactile resolution and significance do matter. (I'd imagine, in her case a similarity to what she had been used to may have also helped.)
Generally – while not knowing much about the viability of the specific implementation –, I think, Fakoo is a great idea.
The similarity that I'm talking about (letters with excessively similar shapes) is a hindrance, not a help. Specially because, as you said, we don't read words letter-by-letter; if the shapes are too similar you need to pay more attention to each one of them, otherwise everything becomes a jumbled mess.
I'm not blind, mind you, although I can read Braille by touch. And sometimes I feel like Braille is the tactile version of this: https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/r... - sure, you can decode the letters, but you waste seconds doing so.
Fakoo doesn't address that, and I feel that it's a more pressing concern than making the letters look like Latin letters.
Mind that visual reading – I actually do not know about tactile, but I'd guess it may be similar – isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words.
I'm under the impression that I'm reading words from both ends with a rather diffuse emphasis on the middle, progressing from both ends towards the middle (maybe at times with a slightly stronger emphasis on the ending) and stopping, when sufficiently ensured, both by the gestalt and and from context. It's more like grabbing the words than reading them sequentially. This is also true for entire groups of words. Generally speaking, reading fluently is a different processing from spelling words out.
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Mind that visual reading – I actually do not know about tactile, but I'd guess it may be similar – isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words. Here, similarity helps a lot. (Otherwise, you have not only learn the new alphabet, but the gestalt of all the words anew.)
Regarding Braille, my grandmother became mostly blind at old age. Having maintained an interest in books, while finding herself increasingly restricted with regard to her radius of action, she tried to learn Braille, but eventually gave up. At her age, she couldn't feel the differences anymore. Tactile resolution and significance do matter. (I'd imagine, in her case a similarity to what she had been used to may have also helped.)
Generally – while not knowing much about the viability of the specific implementation –, I think, Fakoo is a great idea.
The similarity that I'm talking about (letters with excessively similar shapes) is a hindrance, not a help. Specially because, as you said, we don't read words letter-by-letter; if the shapes are too similar you need to pay more attention to each one of them, otherwise everything becomes a jumbled mess.
I'm not blind, mind you, although I can read Braille by touch. And sometimes I feel like Braille is the tactile version of this: https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/r... - sure, you can decode the letters, but you waste seconds doing so.
Fakoo doesn't address that, and I feel that it's a more pressing concern than making the letters look like Latin letters.
This is a strangely popular myth.
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I'm under the impression that I'm reading words from both ends with a rather diffuse emphasis on the middle, progressing from both ends towards the middle (maybe at times with a slightly stronger emphasis on the ending) and stopping, when sufficiently ensured, both by the gestalt and and from context. It's more like grabbing the words than reading them sequentially. This is also true for entire groups of words. Generally speaking, reading fluently is a different processing from spelling words out.
It's simplified but not a myth. This article from Science Alert explains it better than I do: https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-let...
ThE OvErAlL SHapE MatTeRs ToO, and that's what makes case-mixing so annoying.
Your link does not even purport to address the mechanics of reading.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-re...
This is false.