Inter-letter spacing, inter-word spacing, and font with dyslexia friendly features: testing text readability in people with and without dyslexia
| Autor: | Paolo Bernardis, Giuseppe Chia, Jessica Galliussi, Walter Gerbino, Luciano Perondi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Galliussi, Jessica, Perondi, Luciano, Chia, Giuseppe, Gerbino, Walter, Bernardis, Paolo |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Word processing Font computer.software_genre letter spacing Article 050105 experimental psychology Psycholinguistics Education Dyslexia Visual processing Speech and Hearing reading Reading (process) dyslexia Letter spacing medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences EasyReading font Child media_common business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education medicine.disease Crowding Readability Reading Pattern Recognition Visual Visual Perception Female Artificial intelligence Comprehension Psychology business 0503 education computer Photic Stimulation Natural language processing |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Dyslexia |
| Popis: | Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits in low-level visual processing (e.g., excessive crowding). At the same time, specially designed “dyslexia-friendly” fonts appeared on the market. This class of fonts presents two main features: the particular graphic characteristics of the letterform designed to avoid confusion between similarly shaped letters, and wider inter-letter and inter-word spacing to limit crowding. The literature testing the efficacy of “dyslexia-friendly” fonts in improving reading accuracy and increasing reading speed is controversial. We evaluated the impact of letterform (with vs. without dyslexia-friendly graphic features), inter-letter spacing (standard vs. increased), and inter-word spacing (standard vs. increased) on reading accuracy and speed. Two groups of 64 children each, with and without dyslexia, read aloud 8 equivalent texts. The data collected failed to show any effect from the letterform. As regards spacing, the data showed that reading speed is impaired by an increase in inter-letter spacing not combined with an adequate increase in inter-word spacing. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11881-020-00194-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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