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12 to help them improve their reading in a fun engaging way.\n- A parent/Teacher set up learner section.\n- Child/learner setup for onboarding profile application.\n- This includes a phoneme game - click the button to go, speak the word to gain a shining star point ⭐.\n- Designed to be used on a desktop / tablet.\n\n# Designed and Developed by:\n\n- [Peter](https://github.com/PJSalter): Scrum Facilitator\n- [Hallie](https://github.com/vasystus): Quality Assurance\n- [Maria](https://github.com/mariaalouisaa): DevOps\n- [Joe](https://github.com/joe-dev-public): UX/UI Lead\n\n### Tech stack:\n* Deployment host: Netlify.\n* Free Web Speech API from examples of MDN.\n* LocalStorage was implemented.\n* NextJS and React.\n* Styled Components for styling and animations.\n* Icons from [React Icons](https://react-icons.github.io/react-icons/)\n* Wireframes on [Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/d6fNK8z3n8F6EpGVItXJzV/FAC24-TFB-Kaher?node-id=0%3A1)\n\n\n### How to run the application as a developer:\n\nClone the repo onto your local device:\n- `git clone https://github.com/fac24/alis-learning.git`\n- `cd alis-learning`\n- `npm install`\n\nTo then view the application in your browser:\n- `npm run build`\n- `npm run start`\n- visit http://localhost:3000/ in Google Chrome\n\nTo run tests:\n- make sure you are in the project folder, if not `cd alis-learning`\n- `npm run cypress`\n- the cypress GUI should open and run the tests\n- To add tests edit the `/cypress/e2e/spec.cy.js` file\n\n### Known issues:\n\n- The speech recognition API (and our implementation) is far from perfect!\n  - It might struggle with background noise, quiet microphones, different accents, etc.\n  - It might sometimes hang. Refreshing the page is a quick workaround.\n  - A commercial API might do a better job.\n- The learner onboarding progress bar has a couple of issues:\n  - It renders the right-facing arrows in their own ``\u003cli\u003e`` elements. This is bad semantic practice and should be changed.\n  - Each list item is missing a unique ``key`` prop.\n\n### Bug or feature? :slightly_smiling_face: \n\n- Watch out for the user being able to cheat the game and earn more stars than levels. In its current state, the child is accredited a star on completion of a word. If they leave the page before clicking 'next' and return back to the page they will have earned a star but still be on the same level.\n  - This bug could be reframed as an \"easter egg\". If a child is able to find and exploit it, their learning supervisor should take note -- they might have a future in coding! :wink: \n\n### Extra things to consider:\n\n- The speech recognition API this application uses ONLY works on Google Chrome. These features will not work in any other browser.\n- The avatars and decorational images used in the prototype are SVG's that we have sourced from [this organistion found on Icon Finder](https://www.iconfinder.com/search/icons?family=flat-424\u0026price=free) which hold a *Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Licence* which requires attribution if used for comercial use. Please see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/\n- The colours we have implemented for the background choices are colours that have been proven to be good for people with dyslexia, information taken from [Semantic Scholar Org](https://www.semanticscholar.org/) and [TES](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dyselxia-colours-12691056)\nSee image below:\n![](https://i.imgur.com/gUZILyJ.png)\n- Here is some interesting userbility [feedback](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16NtS9KIRMKK9U6RWEzksoLLfP_iUX6i67gLgT3kzE8U/edit) we got during the design week:\n- The [Open Dyslexic](https://opendyslexic.org/) is not available on Google Fonts and needs to be downloaded and imported.\n\n### Some parts are the dummy links/buttons:\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/7jEBWDJ.png)\nAnd \n![](https://i.imgur.com/Jtz9gVp.png)\n\n### ScreenShot:\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/kiWIBsS.png)\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffac24%2Falis-learning","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ffac24%2Falis-learning","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffac24%2Falis-learning/lists"}