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Reading Needs Its Next Gutenberg Press The Next Wave in Reading Technology for Education, Employee Productivity and Beyond Marjorie Jordan and Kathy Crowley March 23, 2021

Reading Needs Its Next Gutenberg Press

The World Needs The Next Gutenberg Press Personalized Reading Formats Will Improve Reading Outcomes for Everyone, Everywhere   Readability Matters celebrates Dr. Clayton Christensen’s influential business ideas and his thought leadership in improving the world through disruptive innovation. Readability Matters posits that personalized reading formats are the next disruptive innovation in reading technology. The next generation…

Adobe Launches New Readability Blog

Adobe Launches New Readability Blog

CSR Initiative Aims for Better Reading for All Adobe is working with educators, nonprofits, and technologists to help people of all ages and abilities read better by personalizing the reading experience on digital devices.   With a story about his grandchildren, prescription eyeglasses, and readability, Adobe Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Treitman launched the Adobe Readability…

Collaborative Inter-Disciplinary Readability Research

A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Readability Research Approach

The Launch of a Readability Research Community Bringing Together Experts From Vision Science, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Education, Typography, and more   Dr. Zoya Bylinskii, Research Scientist at Adobe, began exploring readability in 2019 with her Adobe collaborator Rick Treitman, together with an intern – PhD candidate Shaun Wallace of Brown University. Coming to the…

Surprising Impacts: Readability and Reading Rulers, axe-con

Adobe Results at axe-con: Reading Settings and Reading Rulers

Adobe shares the Liquid Mode Development Story and Results of Readability and Reading Ruler Studies   An Adobe team consisting of Robert Haverty – Senior Product Manager, Document Cloud Accessibility, Matthew Hardy – Senior Engineering Manager, Document Cloud, Jamila Keba – Frontend Developer for Acrobat’s Liquid Mode, and Rick Treitman – Entrepreneur in Residence, presented…

Tune Your Text: Tech to Support Digital Reading

New Readability Session Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE)   Join Readability Matters at the national conference of the Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE) at 2:00 CDT, on March 22, 2021. The EdTech Center at World Education, Adobe, and Readability Matters will be discussing the opportunity to Tune Your Text for better digital reading.…

SXSW-EDU-2021-Personalized Reading One Size Doesn't Fit All

Personalized Reading: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Join Readability Matters at SXSW EDU!   Readability Matters Founders Kathy Crowley and Marjorie Jordan are excited to announce our South by Southwest EDU Readability talk with Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur in Residence at Adobe. We will discuss improving readability and cutting-edge solutions that enable readers to customize text format and optimize the reading experience for…

What is Readability, and does it matter?

What is Readability, and Does it Matter?

Get More Done: Improve Reading Speed, Accuracy, and Comprehension   Increasingly, reading is done on digital devices. Technology provides an opportunity to move from a one-size-fits-all model to one personalized for each reader.  Small changes to text format can improve readability and maximize the reader’s ability to comprehend quickly and accurately. Readability Does Matter. Readers of…

Education Technology Nonprofit ReadWorks Launches Offline Mode to Grant Access to Students Without WiFi at Home

EdTech Nonprofit ReadWorks Launches Offline Mode to Grant Access to Students Without WiFi at Home

ReadWorks Helps Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis   Our partner ReadWorks provides 1.2 million K-12 teachers and 17 million students with content, curricular supports, and digital tools designed to improve teacher instruction and student achievement in reading comprehension—all free of charge.  Today, they announced their commitment “to equity in access for all students,…