US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD Calls for Feedback on Improving Literacy US Senator Bill Cassidy, the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a February 2024 report on child literacy, highlighting significant challenges American children face in acquiring fundamental reading skills. Cassidy emphasizes the need for bipartisan action…
VSS 2024 May 17-22 | 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…
Readability at UDL-Con: International Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for addressing the educational needs of diverse and variable learners in many settings across many stages of life. It is a means to eradicate persistent inequities in education, informed by the educators who use it and their students. CAST’s Annual Symposium and…
Elle Cordova’s Font Humor Shines From YouTube Shorts to Now on the Ted Stage! Readability Matters appreciated singer-songwriter Elle Cordova’s digital short, Fonts Hanging Out; it is a delightful exploration into the often overlooked world of typography. With a keen eye for detail and a playful approach, Cordova’s charming glimpse of fonts’ distinct personalities and…
Group Results are Interesting Individual Results can be Life-Changing Our research colleagues have been surprised and excited by the changes to reading speed and comprehension they see when changing reading text formats for study participants. We at Readability Matters are excited too. It is newsworthy to report an average gain of 21% in both…
UCF Expands K-12 Readability Research Supported by an appropriation from the State of Florida, the Virtual Readability Lab at the University of Central Florida is expanding research to improve reading outcomes for young learners. The $1 million state appropriation will allow the UCF team to expand upon their earlier pilot work to explore…
Readability Can Create a Positive Social Impact on Education Systems In their new series, “Technology Making An Important Positive Social Impact,” Authority Magazine interviewed leaders creating tech products that are making a positive change in people’s lives. On that list is Readability Matters’ co-founder, Kathy Crowley. The interview covered Kathy’s childhood — growing up…
Optimized Text Formats Increase Student Performance in Mathematics Would you solve mathematical problems more efficiently or experience them as less difficult if the problems were presented in your best reading format? A new paper says yes. Recent research on how typography impacts mathematics was presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual conference.…
World Education, A Division of JSI Field Testing Adobe Liquid Mode with Important Health Information While Malawi has made progress in controlling the HIV epidemic, there are still 1.1 million Malawians who are living with HIV; 74,000 of them are children under 15. As part of the Bantwana Initiative, the Ana Patsogolo Activity focuses…
From Adobe Readability Research Intern to Assistant Professor Shaun Wallace is a computer scientist passionate about making tech more human. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and has been part of the Readability community since his internship with Adobe Research in 2019. After seeing the potential for personalized reading formats to significantly improve…