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Individualized Format Readability: The Messy Research Processes of Educational Technologies
University of Arizona Researchers Report on Readability for College Students A 3-year project investigates the impact of better reading formats for college students. Funded by a University of Arizona CUES grant, the research is intended to catalyze innovative teaching and learning. Personalized reading formats allow students to customize their reading experience by changing the […]
The Readability Consortium Names Associates
Congratulations, Associates! The Readability Consortium, a readability research consortium housed at the University of Central Florida, announced the addition of Associates. The full-member board selected these new members in recognition of their continuing work to advance the emerging readability research field. Research Associates provide subject matter expertise, population access and explore their vital areas […]
Readability on the Agenda – COABE 2023
Elevate to a Higher Level COABE 2023 National Conference Registration is now open for the National Conference for the Coalition on Adult Basic Education! The conference will take place in Atlanta from April 2-5. The conference sessions include a presentation on their readability research by Dr. Jen Vanek and Victoria Neff of the EdTech […]
“The Times (New Roman) are-a Changing”
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken Requires Readability Changes Personalization matters. One-format-fits-all should no longer be the defacto model of text presentation. Research supports the personalization of text format to improve reading speed, accuracy and comprehension for most of the population, not only as an accessibility solution. Readability Matters was excited to see the […]
PageBreak: Visions for the Future of Publishing
Next-Generation Publishing – How to Get There Publishing experts and visionaries gathered in San Francisco to discuss strategies for moving the publishing industry to emergent technologies, workflows, and processes. The inaugural PageBreak conference drew an impressive lineup of publishers, researchers, lawyers, librarians, technologists, and nonprofits, all focused on improving the publishing processes and ultimately […]
Readability at Adobe MAX 2022
New Directions in Readability and Accessibility Adobe MAX, 2022 Every year Adobe holds a huge event in Los Angeles, simulcast to the world, called Adobe MAX, where it announces the latest big updates to its industry-leading software. This year’s conference included 6,000 attendees in Los Angeles and another several thousand attending virtually. And, once […]
Readability at ProLiteracy 2022
Tune Your Text: Tech to Support Readability of Digital Text Readability Matters’ Founder, Kathy Crowley, joined Dr. Jen Vanek of World Education and Dr. Zoya Bylinskii of Adobe to share the latest work on Readability in Adult Education at the ProLiteracy conference in San Antonio. The talk began with Jen summarizing the importance of […]
Join us at ProLiteracy 2022!
ProLiteracy October 3-5 San Antonio, Texas Since 2003 ProLiteracy has hosted a biennial conference on adult education. They look forward to again holding an in-person conference this fall. The 2022 ProLiteracy Conference on Adult Education in San Antonio, Texas, will be an opportunity to reinvigorate Adult Education efforts. The conference is a 3-day professional […]
Register Now for PageBreak Publishing Conference!
PageBreak Conference October 27–28, 2022 What started as a conversation about publishing and conferences and innovation and community has evolved into the first-ever PageBreak Conference that will be held in San Francisco, CA, on October 27–28, 2022. Questions the conference will address include: What is “Publishing” in 2022? What does innovation look like today? […]
Adobe Lightning Learning Keynote Released: Digital Readability
Digital Readability at the Adobe Education Summit In a quick Lightning Learning Keynote at the Adobe for Education Summit, Dr. Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo of the University of Arizona speaks to the importance of teaching students to personalize digital text formats. Dr. Rodrigo begins by discussing why it matters that the “mythical best font for […]
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