[Athen] Fonts for dyslexia

[Dan Comden]

I wouldn't bother paying for special fonts.

Not much research in this area, but I did see a presentation about fonts
and readability at the 2013 Assets conference. Here's a link to the
abstract and PDF:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2513447&CFID=753570278&CFTOKEN=75929906

Essentially subjects preferred Arial and Helvetica more than anything else,
including the OpenDyslexic font. Reading performance seemed to mirror
subject's preference.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Thompson, Rachel <rsthompson2 at ua.edu>
wrote:


> We are considering adding fonts like OpenDyslexic

> <http://opendyslexic.org/> or Dyslexie <http://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/> to

> our computers. Do you have experience with these or other, similar fonts?

> Do you or your users have a preference?

>

> Thanks for any input.

> Rachel

>

> Dr. Rachel S. Thompson

> Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility

> Center for Instructional Technology

> University of Alabama

> http://accessibility.ua.edu

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> 124 Russell Hall

> 205.348.0216

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