ReadabilityRx | Voice-AI Experience Available Thru May 2025 Designed For Students in Grades 2-5 Every child deserves a reading experience that feels smooth, engaging, and frustration-free. Did you know that simple changes to text format can make a big difference in how well a child reads? Small adjustments in text style can improve reading…
Leading experts join TRC to advance reading effectiveness and outcomes The Readability Consortium (TRC) continues to grow with the recent addition of six new Research Associates, bringing the total to 18 distinguished experts. Representing diverse fields—including education, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, technology, and typography—these associates bring a rich array of perspectives to advance…
VSS 2025 May 16-20 | St. Pete Beach, Florida The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society encompasses the broad field of vision science, drawing on a range of disciplines, including visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience, computational vision, and visual cognition. The central goal is to understand how vision works and is used. This year,…
A Theory of Visual Attention Based Assessment of Font Style: How Important is x-height for Font Legibility? At the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) annual conference, Drs. Bart Cooreman and Sofie Beier presented their work to understand the impact of different font characteristics on reading letters. In three experiments, they looked…
Readability Demo Sandbox Updated for use by School Students Software developers often create a test environment, called a sandbox, with elements for the intended users to try before the code is built, tested, and deployed. Our Readability Sandboxes provide a unique opportunity for readers to explore and personalize text format features—such as font, character…
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New Research Published from Across the Readability Community The proceedings of the 2024 Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference include four posters presented by members of the cross-disciplinary readability research community. Their groundbreaking work examines how different typefaces and typographic features influence reading performance. These presentations add to the growing evidence that typography plays a…
Better Readability, the Quick Summary! In a fun new video, Dr. Ben D. Sawyer sums up his readability research in 60 seconds. The video is part of a series produced by the University of Central Florida aiming to condense complex research into bite-sized summaries, allowing listeners to see how and why their faculty plans…
Studying Format Readability in Children Dr. Stephanie Day and team conducted a study that provides important insights into how text format readability changes (in this case, font and letter spacing variations) impact reading performance in readers in grades 3–5. The results showed that changes to text format significantly improved reading speed at both the…
UDL-Con International 2024 One Font Doesn’t Fit All: Text Personalization Significantly Impacts Comprehension July 30, 2024 UDL-Con International 2024 was a gathering of education, government, tech, and edTech professionals, each working to improve educational outcomes for all learners. Attendees represented 14 countries and 43 US states. Among the presentations was the better readability-focused talk,…