Good Fonts for Dyslexia

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. On the basis of our results,we present a set of more accessible Fonts for people , font types, typography, readability, legibility, textlayout, text presentation, INTRODUCTIONW orldwide, around 15-20% of the population has a languagebased learning disability [17].

Dyslexia, font types, typography, readability, legibility, text layout, text presentation, eye-tracking. 1. INTRODUCTION Worldwide, around 15-20% of the population has a language based learning disability [17]. Likely, 70-80% of them have dyslexia [17], a neurological disability which impairs a per-son’s ability to read and write.

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