- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:13:00 -0600
- To: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
On 1/25/2016 4:48 PM, Wayne Dick wrote: > I can't find the references for these resoruces. Here's where we (mostly Laura :) have been listing research: <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Research> It is mostly organized by year -- but you can also add a section at the top for a specific issue/topic. ~Shawn On 1/25/2016 4:41 PM, Wayne Dick wrote: > These are good references. i will place them in the bibliography. > > The first is a careful demographic study of low vision between 20/60 and 20/200. The US estimate is 11,000,000 correctable and uncorrectable. 3,000,000 are uncorrectable. Note the huge number of correctable even in the US. > > The second looks at letter spacing with very small increments. Increments of 1/10 of the space between letters. Better funded studies use larger spacing and to not achieve results. Eva McLeish is a special ed elementary teacher, but she sure knows her statistics. > > Vitale S., Cotch M. F., Sperduto R. D. (2010). Prevalence of Visual Impairment in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 295, No. 18, Retrieved from http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=202836 > > McLeish Eve, A Study of the Effect of Letter (2007). Spacing on the Reading Speed of Young Readers with Low Vision, British Journal of Visual Impairment. 25:133, Retrieved from http://jvi.sagepub.com/content/25/2/133, DOI: 10.1177/0264619607075995 > > > Wayne
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