Community-Building Workshop Summary Dr. Nilsu Atilgan The Readability Consortium guest author The Readability Consortium organized a satellite event at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS) in St. Pete Beach, Florida, in May. This satellite event served as a community-building workshop at the most prestigious vision science conference, hosting experts from several…
Use Chrome Reading Mode to Read Comfortably and Efficiently Google Chrome’s Reading Mode significantly enhances the reading experience. Users now have the option to adjust font, text size, letter and line spacing, background color, and more. This inclusive design empowers users to personalize their browsing experience, improving readability and catering to their unique needs…
Adobe Recognized for Liquid Mode Innovation The Edison Awards are a global competition honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation. In 2024, the winners included Adobe’s Reader with Liquid Mode and reading Settings. Innovative Services & Software Solutions Advanced Technologies for Autonomous Systems Silver: Adobe Liquid Mode by…
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…
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…
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…
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…