Readability Explorer, Exquisitive Tutor + Readability Matters

Exquisitive Releases Readability Explorer

Readability Matters and Exquisitive Partner on New Digital Tutor   Readability Matters and Exquisitive have joined forces to release a new digital tutor focused on enhancing text readability. The Readability Explorer gives students an opportunity to experience reading with different text formats and make selections to personalize their reading experience. Personalization in education is more…

Lightning Learning:Google's Dave Crossland and Hilary Palmén, The Importance of Variable Fonts in Improving Readability

Lightning Learning with Google’s Dave Crossland and Hilary Palmén

The Importance of Variable Fonts in Improving Readability   In February 2022, Google joined The Readability Consortium (TRC), a collaborative research initiative with a mission to enhance digital readability for all. Dave Crossland and Dr. Hilary Palmén of Google Fonts joined TRC founding organizations, Adobe, Readability Matters, and the University of Central Florida. Google’s vast…

Microsoft's New NLP-Based Reading Resource

An important First Step: Microsoft Announces NLP Based Reading Progress Resource

Tech Update New in Microsoft Teams: Reading Progress   Citing a recent study from Stanford illustrating the flattened growth of Oral Reading Fluency during the pandemic, Microsoft announced the launch of Reading Progress, a resource to help build opportunities for students and educators to get back on track with reading development.   “Reading Progress in Teams supports…

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…

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Adobe Announces Liquid Mode

“Adobe unveils ambitious multi-year vision for PDF: Introduces Liquid Mode”   Today Ashley Still, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Media at Adobe, announced Liquid Mode and new Readability Features in Adobe Reader. Given the frustrations of reading documents on mobile devices, Adobe has made these new features available first in the free Adobe…

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The Promise of Variable Fonts

Variable Fonts Deliver New Possibilities for Enhanced Readability   Readability Begins with Typography While not widely recognized beyond the research community, typography design is a foundational element of reading performance. Research demonstrates that readers respond differently to changes in character shape and spacing. These typographical features are fixed in the static fonts we use today,…