UserTesting Showcases The Readability Consortium UserTesting produced a customer story and video showcasing The Readability Consortium and the exciting research designed to enhance digital readability. The founding group of Adobe, Google, University of Central Florida and Readability Matters launched with a mission of conducting research and engineering to empower designers and readers to better navigate…
Readability Consortium Launches to Inform Next-Generation Reading Solutions The Readability Consortium will explore ways to enable better reading and shift reading outcomes by personalizing text format for the individual. Fort Collins, Feb. 15, 2022 – It is widely accepted that reading is one of the most efficient ways to acquire information, with an estimated…
Literacy and Student Engagement: Removing Barriers To Bring Joy Back To Learning Michael Hernandez As a student, I hated reading. I was–and still am–slow at it, and every story, textbook and essay I had to read was a struggle that took much longer than it did for my peers. Even though I was curious…
Personalization is the Foundation We celebrate the engineers, researchers, scientists, educators who are all partnering to build better reading today. In 2021, researchers again demonstrated the importance of personalized reading formats; a cognitive scientist collaborating with a typographer and an educator used new methods to observe improvements in reading comprehension driven by small changes…
The Value of Typography and Text Personalization Readability Experts from Adobe, Google, and Typography for Good Now Available on Demand Creating Value with Personalized Readability Formats Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Adobe Dave Crossland, Lead UX Programmes and Operations, Google Fonts Sam Berlow, The Readability Consortium One year ago, Adobe announced the readability initiative, which included…
Type Customization Impacts Student Comprehension Readability Researchers from Adobe, Chapman University, and the Royal Danish Academy Now Available on Demand One Font Doesn’t Fit All: Type Design and Comprehension Zoya Bylinskii, Ph D. Research Scientist, Adobe Dr. Shannon Sheppard, Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Chapman University Dr. Sofie Beier, Professor WSR, Head of…
The Science of Typography Readability Matters had the pleasure of talking to the internationally renowned typography researcher, Dr. Sofie Beier. Sofie has authored several books and numerous scholarly articles on typography and legibility. She is professor WSR at the School of Design under The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she is head…
Personalized Reading Formats Make Better Readers Readability Matters will be back at SXSW EDU. Join us in Austin as we share the stage with ReadWorks, Adobe, and the University of Arizona to present insights from a new body of readability research that can inform the design of better learning applications. SXSW EDU announced the…
Research Highlight: Readability Promises to Improve Medical Outcomes This summer Rachel Ball, Dave Miller, Shaun Wallace and their team submitted their medical readability study in the Proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care. The promising results point to a future where personalized reading formats could improve reading…
Empowering Students with Executive Functioning and Readability Skills Readability Matters sat down with Katie Arpin, an educator with 11 years of classroom experience. She specializes in literacy, has curriculum development experience, and holds master’s degrees from the Teacher’s College of Columbia University and Sacred Heart University. She told us she started teaching to empower…