Re: Readability of international language scripts

Greetings Steve and COGA TF,

I will need to go back and do some additional digging, but last year at the
Web4All conference in San Francisco, there was a young woman who did a
presentation along a similar vein. As I recall, she was researching
readability of both Western scripts and Thai (??) script, and the somewhat
astonishing conclusion she brought forward was that font *SIZE* also had a
real impact; the larger take-away I left with was that at 18 pt. or larger,
both readability, comprehension, and recall was significantly improved.

A quick search returns the following:
*The effect of typeface and font size on reading text on a tablet computer
for older and younger people; Maneerut Chatrangsan, Helen Petrie - *
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335059576_The_effect_of_typeface_and_font_size_on_reading_text_on_a_tablet_computer_for_older_and_younger_people


FWIW

JF

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:39 AM Steve Lee <stevelee@w3.org> wrote:

> This message is mainly for the Editorial Team members who are working on
> readability of languages like Hebrew and Arabic. These use special
> Diacritics marks to improve readability.
>
> In today's W3C EU meeting Richard Ishida mentioned his work summarising
> the key feature of various language Scripts. These provide a lot of
> detailed information, including on diacritics:
>
> https://r12a.github.io/scripts/#scriptnotes
>
> https://r12a.github.io/scripts/arabic/
> https://r12a.github.io/scripts/hebrew/
>
> Richard also mentioned that he regularly gets notifications about
> readability resources/papers on academia.edu
>
> Richard is Activity Lead and Staff contact for W3C Internationalisation
> work. I'm sure we could ask him to review any new patterns on the topic.
>
> Steve
>
>

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