- From: Juan Ulloa <julloa@bcc.ctc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:45:13 -0700
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
No doubt the site is ironically hard to read and inaccessible, but that's a problem with the website. The font, on the other hand, looks nice and legible. Are there any comments about the font in particular? To tell you the truth I never even thought about using font to make it websites or print easier to read by people with reading disorders. I always thought I was playing it safe by limiting myself to fonts like Arial, Helvetica and Verdana. Juan C. Ulloa * Website Specialist * Web Services * Bellevue Community College * julloa@bcc.ctc.edu * (425) 564-2487 * Mailstop: D261 -----Original Message----- From: Section 508.US [mailto:tagi11@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:20 AM To: P.H.Lauke; Peter Rainger Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; e.a.draffan@sussex.ac.uk Subject: Re: read regular - typeface for dyslexics I can see fairly well. The site looks very blurry to me. And the background is really bad...IMHO., m ************************************************** Michael G. Van Randen 1236 Greystone Lane Pensacola, Florida 32514 850-206-4715 cell 850-474-4733 tagi11@cox.net webguy@universaldesign.us When you care enough to work with the very best America has to offer...hire Disabled Veterans! www.myworkcenter.com In the words of Calvin Coolidge..... "Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." "The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be". William James ************************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Rainger" <P.F.Rainger@sussex.ac.uk> To: "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk> Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>; <e.a.draffan@sussex.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:54 AM Subject: Re: read regular - typeface for dyslexics Dear Paul, This does seem an interesting font type. Dyslexia friendly fonts generally have a simple design that aids in letter recognition and this font design seems to have put a lot of thought into avoiding the typical dyslexic reading traits of letter transposition, rotation and reflection. Other "simplistic" fonts include Comic Sans MS and Sassoon - whether or not the Typographers think they are "real fonts" or not. It is certainly a little more "adult" than Comic Sans and it will be interesting to see what my Dyslexic contacts make of it. I have emailed the contact on the site for more details. PS. Yeap those square do create a not so friendly optical illusion. and that copyright text is just awful. Pete TechDis Quoting "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>: > spotted this whilst trawling some design sites: http://www.readregular.com/ " Read Regular is a typeface designed specifically to help people with dyslexia read and write more effectively. " It certainly looks a bit better than Comic Sans, but I'm wondering whether the design of the site itself is not actually working against the audience it tries to target (patterned background that hurts even my eyes). Any views ? (calling Pete Rainger of TechDis *grin*) Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster External Relations Division Faraday House University of Salford Greater Manchester M5 4WT Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 4779 e-mail: webmaster@salford.ac.uk www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
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