How to present more readable text for people with dyslexia

Rello, Luz; Baeza-Yates, Ricardo

doi:10.1007/s10209-015-0438-8

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“…Our results on reading and spelling performances provide evidence that word presentation have an impact for dyslexic readers. These results are consistent with many researches on text design recommendations for people with dyslexia [1,8,9]. Nevertheless, these studies focus mainly on fonts or document structure, but few on word or text salience.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Impact of Word Presentation for Dyslexia

Appert

Truillet

2016

Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 17140The contribution was presented at ASSETS 2016 : https://assets16.sigaccess.org/ To cite this version : Appert, Damien and Truillet, Philippe Impact of Word Presentation for Dyslexia. (

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Impact of Word Presentation for Dyslexia

Appert

Truillet

2016

Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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“…23 Rello and Baeza-Yates provide recommendations of larger fonts, high contrast, and larger, strategic page spacing to increase reading speed of people with dyslexia. 24 In their study of the reading speed of people with dyslexia of various common fonts, Rello and Marcos also found that font choice has an effect on reading speed and performance. 25 Sans serif, roman, and monospaced fonts increased reading performance, and Helvetica, Arial, Courier, and Verdana are particularly recommended.…”

Section: Accessibility and Usabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

CatDoc HackDoc: Tools and Processes for Managing Documentation Lifecycle, Workflows, and Accessibility

Bergland

Davis

Traill

2019

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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Documentation of local policies, workflows, and procedures is an important activity for cataloging and metadata units. But creating and maintaining documentation is a huge task that is not always a high priority. Librarians at the University of Minnesota Libraries planned a documentation hackathon, CatDoc HackDoc, with three primary goals: to update a large amount of documentation quickly, to apply accessibility best practices to all documentation, and to bring new staff into the documentation workflow. This article describes the event's planning process, structure, and outcomes, and offers guidance on how others can adapt the CatDoc HackDoc model in their own organizations. transitions, both by increasing staff confidence and improving process efficiency. When good documentation is in place, new staff members should not have to "reverse engineer" procedural steps or invent (and document) an entirely new procedure where a previously undocumented one had been in place.Another critical function of documentation is to encourage consistency of practice. This is especially true when more than one staff member is responsible for the same or similar cataloging and metadata tasks. Staff who began working for the library at different times may have learned their jobs under different standards and practices or may have learned their jobs under different supervisors or lead workers. As job responsibilities, metadata standards, and library systems all change over time, it is challenging to keep everyone "on the same page." Ongoing attention paid to documentation can help alleviate this problem. 1 Accurate, up-to-date documentation is also a valuable tool for data analysis. Five decades after the invention of MARC, and 30-40 years after many libraries implemented their first integrated library system, the need for documentation showing how library data practices have changed over time is acute and growing. Thoughtfully maintained documentation can explain puzzling elements in legacy data, help identify areas for data remediation, and serve as an informal registry or key for analysis projects drawing on library metadata. Whatever the rationale for prioritizing documentation, it is important to think of documentation as an ongoing process, rather than as a project with a clearly defined endpoint. Good documentation has a lifecycle. The components of the documentation lifecycle may vary slightly, but a simple lifecycle might include drafting, publishing,

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“…The literature review also included two quantitative studies. An eye tracking study performed on 92 participants from Spain highlighted the importance of customizable text and how to ensure the computer screen is readable for dyslexic students (Rello & Baeza-Yates, 2015). Forty-six people with dyslexia were studied and another 46 acted as a control group for the study.…”

Section: Online Text Presentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1. First, "dyslexic readers show the typical word frequency effect in which low-frequency words are fixated longer than high-frequency words" (Hyöna & Olson, 1995;Rello & Baeza-Yates, 2015). 2.…”

Section: Online Text Presentationmentioning

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Assistive Technologies and Academic Success for Students with Dyslexia: A Literature Review

Horn

Huber

2020

International Journal of Educational Technology and Learning

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According to research, one in ten school-aged children is diagnosed with dyslexia (Shaywitz (2008) as cited in Wang et al. (2018)) and "15-20% of the population as a whole may have symptoms of dyslexia" (Cowen, 2016). With so many students impacted, what does research provide about the assistive technologies available to aide students diagnosed with dyslexia in academic success? This literature review was conducted to determine affordances for students of all ages who could use modern technology to become more successful at reading, writing, spelling, and language comprehension. Helping students succeed in compulsory education could afford students with dyslexia the opportunity for successful academic attainment in higher education. Research indicates "people with dyslexia are vastly under-represented in universities" (MacCullagh, Bosanquet, & Badcock, 2017). The opportunity for all students to have an equitable education should be a fundamental right and the following literature review analyzes the assistive technologies available to allow students with dyslexia to thrive in an educational setting.

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How to present more readable text for people with dyslexia

Cited by 53 publications

References 79 publications

Impact of Word Presentation for Dyslexia

Impact of Word Presentation for Dyslexia

CatDoc HackDoc: Tools and Processes for Managing Documentation Lifecycle, Workflows, and Accessibility

Assistive Technologies and Academic Success for Students with Dyslexia: A Literature Review

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