Farfalla project

Launching a new profile: Enhanced Readability

Andrea — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:50:39 +0000

Following the guidelines proposed by the British Dyslexia Association we created a new Farfalla plugin to make pages easier to be read.

The features, in brief:

it changes the color of white backgrounds to light yellow, also for form elements;
it turns all text to a sans-serif font;
it doubles line height;
it aligns all text to the left, avoiding the uneven spaces of justified text.

All this was thought of as a reading facilitator for people with dyslexia, with the aim of creating something that changes the style of a page in a non-drastic way. You can try it now by selecting the “Enhanced readability” option in the dropdown menu of the Farfalla toolbar (in the right top corner fo this very page!). The same profile also features the fontsize plugin, allowing proportional text enlargement.

Farfalla for Mozilla Firefox

Andrea — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:01:55 +0000

Good news for Mozilla Firefox users out there: the process of permanent installation of the Farfalla toolbar is now radically simplified thanks to the creation of a specific browser plugin.

What does this mean? Easy enough, if you use Firefox you can simply click on this link and have Farfalla ready. No more Greasemonkey, no more scripts installation.

Note for developers: this was possible thanks to the User Script Compiler by Arantius.

Now on Twitter

Andrea — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:25:16 +0000

Today a Twitter account was opened in order to compensate the difficulty in keeping this blog up to date… many an more things have changed in the Farfalla code since this new website was launched, many people helped and some others started using Farfalla.

Are you interested? While the coding goes on, someone who would write a little documentation could really be of help! Contact us.

New website launched!

Andrea — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:06:46 +0000

Farfalla project has a new website! It has been redesigned mainly to make clear how the toolbar works. It is quite essential by now, but it will grow with documentation and video demos.