Readability on the Agenda at the COABE 2023 National Conference

Readability on the Agenda – COABE 2023

Elevate to a Higher Level COABE 2023 National Conference   Registration is now open for the National Conference for the Coalition on Adult Basic Education! The conference will take place in Atlanta from April 2-5. The conference sessions include a presentation on their readability research by Dr. Jen Vanek and Victoria Neff of the EdTech…

The Times (New Roman) are-a changing - US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken

“The Times (New Roman) are-a Changing”

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken Requires Readability Changes   Personalization matters. One-format-fits-all should no longer be the defacto model of text presentation. Research supports the personalization of text format to improve reading speed, accuracy and comprehension for most of the population, not only as an accessibility solution. Readability Matters was excited to see the…

Space for Readability: Effects on Reading Speed from Individuated Character and Word Spacing

Space for Readability: Effects on Reading Speed from Individuated Character and Word Spacing

Space for Readability: Effects on Reading Speed from Individuated Character and Word Spacing Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting December 2022   The Vision Sciences Society has again highlighted readability work. A peer-reviewed abstract was presented at the VSS conference and published in the 2022 conference proceedings. The research studies the influence of character and word…

28 Experts join forces for readability research

Research Highlight: “Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach”

New Readability Research Paper Aims to Accelerate Best Practices and Methodologies   Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach published in Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction – December 12, 2022   Paper Introduction “From the moment we wake up to the moment we end our day, we use interfaces built out of the written word. Textual…