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…
Transforming mobile document experiences with Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Adobe celebrated the 30th anniversary of Acrobat and PDF this year — a digital document format they invented and open-sourced, paving the way for the digital publishing revolution. Adobe’s proprietary AI is used to power Liquid Mode and instantly reflow text, tables, bullets and…
Adobe recognizes Readability Matters Readability Matters is honored to be included in the group of companies that Adobe recognized as driving transformative initiatives to better prepare the world for the future. Better readability is critical in this time of increasingly digital information. The expansion of technology usage has produced ever-increasing demands for literacy. To…
Readability Community of Practice @ MAX 2023 Readability Matters’ Kathy Crowley and Dr. Jen Vanek of World Education represented the Readability Community of Practice at Adobe MAX this week. It was a rare opportunity for Community of Practice members from Europe and across the US to meet face-to-face. Hosted by Adobe members Angie Bush…
Reading Text Formats Improve Comprehension What if a simple change to text format could help students comprehend more? There is growing evidence that the best text style is different for each individual. Text features such as shape, size and spacing impact individuals differently. Readability Matters is proud to announce the publication of our…
Readability Research From The Applied Perception and Psychophysics Laboratory University of Toronto Mississauga The Applied Perception and Psychophysics Laboratory at the University of Toronto Mississauga focuses on questions at the intersection of vision science and real-world problems and takes a use-inspired approach to research. This approach means that the lab looks to real-world…
Text Format Impacts Reading Comprehension Personalizing text formats can improve reading outcomes for school-aged children. Reading comprehension, the ability to successfully extract information from text, is a critical skill, yet many students struggle to learn to read across many countries. In the United States, only 35% of 4th graders and 34% of 8th graders…