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. Using a within-subjectdesign, 48 subjects with Dyslexia read 12 texts with 12 dif-ferent serif,monospacedandromanfont stylessignificantly improved the reading performance overserif,proportionalanditalicfonts.
INTRODUCTION Worldwide, around 15-20% of the population has a language based learning disability [17]. Likely, 70-80% of them have ... ture, brain function, and genetics studies con rm the bio-logical foundations of dyslexia [31].1 Although dyslexia is ... quantitative data from eye-tracking measurements. In ad-dition, with testing 12 di erent ...
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