A presentation at Design & Content Conference in in Vancouver, BC, Canada by Stephanie Hobson
Reading is a complicated task. It requires active memory, sustained attention, and a complex understanding of language.
Cognitive disabilities can make reading even more complicated. Permanent conditions, like dyslexia, situational conditions, like learning an additional language, and temporary conditions, like reading in a noisy room, affect a reader’s comprehension.
Conditions like these can affect our readers’ understanding by interfering with their attention, memory, or linguistic comprehension. Three practical things we can do to help are:
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
The best tool I’ve found to edit text to make it easier to read. It identifies the reading level your text is appropriate for. It also identified confusing sentences, words, and grammar for you to fix.
A browser extension for Dyslexics.
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