Transcription of Good Fonts for Dyslexia
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Good Fonts for DyslexiaLuz RelloNLP & Web Research GroupsUniversitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, Baeza-YatesYahoo! Labs &Web Research Group, UPFB arcelona, 10% of the people have Dyslexia , a neurological dis-ability that impairs a person s ability to read and is evidence that the presentation of the text has asignificant effect on a text s accessibility for people withdyslexia. However, to the best of our knowledge, there areno experiments that objectively measure the impact of thefont type on reading performance. In this paper, we presentthe first experiment that uses eye-tracking to measure theeffect of font type on reading speed.
comprehension tests, respectively, using the latter as a con-trol variable. The participants’ preference was gathered via questionnaires. 4.1 Design In our experimental design, Font Type served as an inde-pendent variable with 12 levels: Arial ,Arial Italic Com-puter Modern Unicode (CMU) ,Courier Garamond Hel-
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