Web Navigation for Individuals with Dyslexia: An Exploratory Study

Al-Wabil, Areej; Zaphiris, Panayiotis; Wilson, Stephanie

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_66

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“…As recommended in [20], short paragraphs using short text are preferred by dyslexics. Some dyslexics were observed not comfortable with black text on white background due to the high contrast [21].…”

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Interactive screen-based design for dyslexic children

Ismail

Jaafar

2011

2011 International Conference on User Science and Engineering (I-USEr )

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Computers and educational multimedia courseware have the potential in helping dyslexic children in education and self development.There are still not many educational multimedia courseware, games and web sites that were designed specifically for those with learning difficulties. We conducted a preliminary research that collected information on how these children feel and react when they interacting with educational multimedia courseware. This paper reports the problems faced by these children and intended as a step to understand the difficulties children with dyslexia experienced while using educational multimedia courseware.

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confidence: 99%

Interactive screen-based design for dyslexic children

Ismail

Jaafar

2011

2011 International Conference on User Science and Engineering (I-USEr )

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“…Next, we present the characteristics shared by the texts in each experiment: The presentation of the text has an effect on reading speed so we used the same layout for all the texts. We chose a recommended font type for reading in a screen, sans serif arial, a large size (20 points) and 62 characters/column and unjustified text and recommended color and brightness contrast using a black font with crème background [1,45]. 4 Target Numerical Expressions.…”

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“…Given this, there are different initiatives that propose guidelines to help rewriting a text to make it more comprehensive. Some of them are Plain Language 1 [21].…”

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One Half or 50%? An Eye-Tracking Study of Number Representation Readability

Rello

Bautista

Baeza-Yates

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Are numbers expressed as digits easier to read and understand than written with letters? What about fractions and percentages? Exact or rounded values? We present an eye-tracking study that attempts to answer these questions for Spanish, using fixation and reading time to measure readability as well as comprehension questions to score understandability. We find that digits are faster to read but do not help comprehension. Fractions help understandability while percentages help readability. No significant results were found concerning the influence of rounding. Our experiments were performed by 72 persons, half of them with dyslexia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that addresses the cognitive load of number representation in any language, even more for people with dyslexia.

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“…A number of related works on interaction design for dyslexia have been mentioned in their research. Some of them focused on functionality and some others on the user interface: From one hand, the studies of Freire et al [12] and Al-Wabil et al [13] focused on functionalities that could help dyslectic users improve their performance. In their studies, they refer to a number of 693 problems on accessibility and usability, which problems are related to difficulties in navigation, architecture of information, the form of texts, the organization of the content, the language and the amount of information that makes harder for dyslectics to scan a text.…”

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Literature Survey on Interaction Design and Existing Software Applications for Dyslectic Users

Vangeli

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2018

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Abstract. The purpose of this study is a literature research on interaction design and existing software applications for dyslectic users. This literature research will contribute a future empirical study on how we could design a reading software application together with dyslectic users to enhance their reading skills. For the purpose of this research, we initially collected 175 studies, from which we selected, reviewed and made an overview table of 71 studies organized by areas of attention. The literature research on interaction design of systems for dyslectic users resulted in a presentation and comparison of interaction design (IxD) parameters. This process indicated common dimensions and elements among IxD parameters supporting users in improving their reading skills. Finally, reviewed studies on existing software applications resulted in a focus on improving dyslectics' reading performance. Our results showed that there is a trend on developing interaction designs focused on the reading conceptual area. We also discuss dyslectics users of existing software applications complaints, which resulted in a lack of existing software applications' design and system quality.

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Web Navigation for Individuals with Dyslexia: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 28 publications

References 6 publications

Interactive screen-based design for dyslexic children

Interactive screen-based design for dyslexic children

One Half or 50%? An Eye-Tracking Study of Number Representation Readability

Literature Survey on Interaction Design and Existing Software Applications for Dyslectic Users

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