Surprising Impacts: Readability and Reading Rulers, axe-con

Adobe Results at axe-con: Reading Settings and Reading Rulers

Adobe shares the Liquid Mode Development Story and Results of Readability and Reading Ruler Studies   An Adobe team consisting of Robert Haverty – Senior Product Manager, Document Cloud Accessibility, Matthew Hardy – Senior Engineering Manager, Document Cloud, Jamila Keba – Frontend Developer for Acrobat’s Liquid Mode, and Rick Treitman – Entrepreneur in Residence, presented…

Tune Your Text: Tech to Support Digital Reading

New Readability Session Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE)   Join Readability Matters at the national conference of the Coalition on Basic Adult Education (COABE) at 2:00 CDT, on March 22, 2021. The EdTech Center at World Education, Adobe, and Readability Matters will be discussing the opportunity to Tune Your Text for better digital reading.…

SXSW-EDU-2021-Personalized Reading One Size Doesn't Fit All

Personalized Reading: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Join Readability Matters at SXSW EDU!   Readability Matters Founders Kathy Crowley and Marjorie Jordan are excited to announce our South by Southwest EDU Readability talk with Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur in Residence at Adobe. We will discuss improving readability and cutting-edge solutions that enable readers to customize text format and optimize the reading experience for…

Education Technology Nonprofit ReadWorks Launches Offline Mode to Grant Access to Students Without WiFi at Home

EdTech Nonprofit ReadWorks Launches Offline Mode to Grant Access to Students Without WiFi at Home

ReadWorks Helps Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis   Our partner ReadWorks provides 1.2 million K-12 teachers and 17 million students with content, curricular supports, and digital tools designed to improve teacher instruction and student achievement in reading comprehension—all free of charge.  Today, they announced their commitment “to equity in access for all students,…

The Giving Back Fund 2020 Annual Report

The Giving Back Fund 2020 Report

Showcasing Projects with Great Promise for Future Sustainability and Impact   Today President and Founder Marc Pollick released a tour of the highlights of The Giving Back Fund’s work in 2020. The Giving Back Fund is a national non-profit organization with a global reach that facilitates philanthropic giving by providing consulting, management, and administrative services…

Readability Matters and Santa Clara University

Readability Matters + Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University EMBA Students Collaborate with the Tech-For-Good Nonprofit Readability Matters   Since 1851, Santa Clara University (SCU) has been home to generations of students committed to innovating with a mission. This year is no different as Executive MBA students from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (SCU) collaborated with the…

EdTech Center at World Education Readability Webinar

World Education Hosts Readability Webinar

Readability for All: Improving Literacy & Engagement through Enhanced Readability Webinar for Adult Education Professionals   The EdTech Center at World Education invited Adobe and Readability Matters to deliver a webinar on improving readability for their audience of adult education professionals. Hosts Jen Vanek and Victoria Neff of the EdTEch Center brought together more than…

This Changes Everything. New Approaches to Reading. Adobe MAX

This Changes Everything: New Approaches to Reading

A New Personalized Reading Paradigm Better Readability for All Readers Young and Old, Strong and Struggling   Readability was on the agenda at software giant Adobe’s annual MAX conference this year. CEO Shantanu Narayen kicked off the conference by announcing over 500,000 people had registered for the virtual event. Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur in Residence, Adobe,…