On: Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users

[Semiapies]

How could you use the innocent non-breaking space for such evil?

More seriously - is anything like that used in the wild? I'm just trying to figure out why they gave a suggestion to stop doing something that it takes such improbable work-arounds to do in the first place. Double-spacing after sentences sticks out like a sore thumb in proportional fonts.

[isleyaardvark → Semiapies]

I seem to remember seeing a WYSIWYG text editor add those nbsps when there was more than one space in a row, but I could be mistaken.

[ams6110 → isleyaardvark]

Yes, at least some of them do.

[prawn → ams6110]

Leaving some clients to use nbsps in place of tables or tabs to try and layout columns, bullet lists, etc. Eek!

[nborgo → Semiapies]

I think there might be Wordpress addons that do this. It looks like Patrick's blog (http://www.kalzumeus.com/) uses one and I've seen a few other blogs with the same thing. It's annoying.