Did you know that people with dyslexia struggle to reproduce their passwords?

Find out how PixelPin can ease the process of authentication for people with dyslexia.

We at PixelPin have been always thinking about how people with different disabilities, disorders or memory issues might find it difficult to remember and reproduce alpha-numerical passwords. We have gone deeper into research to understand how PixelPin could help people with dyslexia with its colourful and personal authentication solution. The research has provided us with information about what strategies these people use and how they struggle to remember and reproduce passwords.

People with dyslexia, a learning difficulty that can cause people to struggle with writing, spelling, and reading, tend to develop strategies to help themselves when reproducing passwords. One of them involves thinking about the password in capital letters and exchanging the letters with numbers that resemble them: PASSWORD — PA55W0RD. For some people, this makes the process simpler.

If you think the problem isn’t a big issue, it is actually quite serious and, according to the British Dyslexia Association, 10% of the British population suffer with dyslexia. When reading, text for a person with dyslexia often looks like this: https://cs8.pikabu.ru/post_img/2016/03/04/6/1457083461168735868.gif

Now, you can understand how those affected might respond to remembering and inserting passwords every time they need to log in to an account. Only a few websites have the option to change fonts to the ones that often make dyslexics feel more comfortable logging in.

Research says…

Recent study has found that children with dyslexia perform significantly better when they needed to remember and reproduce several images in comparison to children who did not have dyslexia. In addition, the research discovered dyslexics remember pictures with objects on them better than they remember numerical and alphabetic texts. Images for people with dyslexia are just the keys that open the gate of memory and understanding; pictures and visual experience help them to attach sense to words and make them more concrete.

PixelPin is a solution!

We think that PixelPin is a solution for people suffer from dyslexia and will make the process of authentication easier for them.

Our carefully selected gallery pictures are bright and have many objects and points of interest to choose from so that people suffering with dyslexia will never have to struggle to authenticate again.

If you have any questions or want to integrate PixelPin, do not hesitate to reach us on hello@pixelpin.io