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Accessibility and Digital Resources: OverDrive's Dyslexic Font

OverDrive eBooks Offer Six Font Styles

OverDrive Open Dyslexic Font Demonstration 1 min. 15 sec.

Accessing Open Dyslexic Font in OverDrive eBooks

 

To choose Open Dyslexic, click on Having trouble? Click on Read now in browser. 

 

Clicking in the center column of the book will open four icons across the top of the page. Choose A for appearance.

 

Choose Open Dyslexic

 

The font will change to look like this.

 

Choosing A for appearance also brings up TEXT SCALE  which allows you to choose the text size and LIGHTING which allows you to choose the contrast between the text and the background.