Readability Matters
@ReadabilityMtrs
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Building Better Reading Through Personalized Digital Text #tech4good
Joined June 2018
Can your child's reading be improved by changing the text format? Try our 5-min test to find out. During March, parents of 2nd to 5th graders can use our research tool for free. Sign-up: #reading #technews #parents #Strugglingreaders
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📖 Now live! The Readability Demo Sandbox includes student reading content—empowering parents, educators, and researchers to explore how customized text formats improve reading. Try it today! #EdTech #StudentSuccess #Parents #educators
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✨Maximize Your Day✨Reading at work doesn’t have to be a challenge. Make text work for you with customizations that match your individual needs. ✅ Use Personalized Reading Formats to Get More Done!. #GetMoreDone #ReadabilityMatters
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Better readability through personalized reading formats improves reading speed and comprehension in education, business, and life. Join us in this important work. Get Involved with #BetterReadability.
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Welcome Monotype! @Monotype joins The Readability Consortium to advance global readability research! We are looking forward to partnering to build better reading. @TheReadabilityC #technews.
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Monotype, one of the most recognized names in the world of fonts and typography, has teamed up with The Readability Consortium (TRC), a group of engineering, psychophysics, and design researchers...
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Welcome @Monotype to the @TheReadabilityC!🙌They join founding members—@Adobe, @Google, @ReadabilityMtrs &@UCF a big step forward in our mission to enhance reading experiences for all through personalized text formats. #readability4all #technews
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Monotype is a global leader in type design and technology, is the newest associate member of The Readability Consortium (TRC)...
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Thank you, @SenBillCassidy, for releasing your report on Child Literacy & inviting public comment. Could better readability improve literacy rates? Grateful for the opportunity to provide feedback. #Education #Literacy #ChildLiteracy #Reading
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US Senator Bill Cassidy, released a report on child literacy, highlighting challenges children face in acquiring fundamental reading skills...
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Unlock the power of better reading! đź“šWhether you're a strong reader or face challenges, personalized text formats can enhance your reading experience. We collaborate with tech, university, and nonprofit partners to build better reading solutions for all.
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What if a simple change to text format could help students comprehend more? The latest research about how personalized Reading Text Formats improve comprehension for K-8 students. Research led by Dr. Shannon Sheppard. Full paper:
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There is growing evidence that the best text style is different for each individual. Text features such as shape, size and spacing impact...
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RT @ReadWorks: We are a proud partner in this #readability study to improve reading outcomes! @ReadabilityMtrs
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Developing new personalized reading implementation models is a necessary first step to taking advantage of promising educational benefits...
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RT @TheReadabilityC: Speed Reading, Medical Style: Imagine if you could speed up the time it took to read and comprehend complex medical re….
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We are proud to partner with @ReadWorks, the BRT Lab at the @uoregon, and the iDEAL Institute at.@LoyolaMarymount School of Education. #literacy #reading #personalizedreading #readability #researchstudy #futureofreading.
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Developing new personalized reading implementation models is a necessary first step to taking advantage of promising educational benefits...
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Changing the text size may immediately improve readability. But we can do more. Research demonstrates additional typographical features (character spacing or width) can impact reading speed, accuracy, & comprehension. Learn more about readability research:
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We invite technology, typography and publishing researchers, edTech companies, and universities to participate in further study.
Even with a typeface that seems got all necessary qualities: contraste, type size is what makes the difference between legibility and readability. It is your designer's choice to know when to switch from one to the other. âž˝
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Interesting read from @ReadingShanahan. Affordances of digital reading are important to consider. Changing the base font or text size may immediately make you a better reader. But you can do more! New research supports personalized text formats. #edtech
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We build better reading. Our mission is to engage an ecosystem of partners to deliver personalized reading environments, empowering everyone to achieve more
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The Technology Exists Today | Reading and learning apps can offer the reader simple text format adjustments today. We must do more! We must develop diagnostics to help readers discover their optimal text format for reading. Read our post. #technews #read.
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The technology exists today to change text formats and significantly improve the reading experience for an individual...
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RT @TheReadabilityC: What if. all text was tailored to fit individual needs?. The result? A brighter future shaped by thinkers, leaders, a….
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"@Adobe formed The Readability Consortium with University of Central Florida (UCF), @ReadabilityMtrs, and @Google to help make digital reading and reading comprehension more equitable for all people across the globe. " @TheReadabilityC @UCFCECS #tech4good.
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Everyone reads differently. Are your digital documents designed for everyone? @Adobe's @abhigyan writes in CIO Magazine how employees & customers benefit from flexible docs. Learn how to make your business more inclusive. @TheReadabilityC @CIOonline .
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Learn more about what Readability Matters and @ReadWorks are doing to improve learning outcomes by personalized text formats. #readability #TechForGood #research.
Reading comprehension improves when students are provided with their best reading format. The research and implementations we have been doing around readability for K-12 students with the help of Readability Matters are captured in this new blog post!
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RT @AdobeForEdu: Fonts have subtle elements that impact your ability to read them. “They’re the lens through which you perceive written tex….
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Fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.
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