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…
The Rise of Customization We can customize our cars, our clothes, and even our food. But what about the things that have the potential to improve our performance? Our golf clubs and our running shoes are examples of things that can be customized to create these performance improvements. Just as eye doctors can make…
Better Reading Implementation Study Announced The University of Oregon, ReadWorks, LMU iDEAL Institute, and Readability Matters August 8, 2023 – Readability Matters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving readability for all, is partnering with literacy experts, funding research to improve educational outcomes through personalized reading solutions. Personalized reading formats are the next offering in…
We have the Technology We have all experienced it. We have used the pinch and zoom features on our Smartphones to change the text size and instantly improve our reading speed, accuracy, and comprehension. And, once we did, we experienced more comfort and enjoyment and greater engagement with the content. The technology exists today…