Typography, Readability and Digital Accessibility

Unless taking advantage of text-to-speech tools, visiting a website or using an app typically involves some degree of active reading, more or less in-depth. This reading experience can vary significantly depending on a range of factors, including visual and cognitive processes, attention, usage context, and individual characteristics.
Understanding how we read, the skills it requires, and the compensatory strategies we adopt is an area of growing research interest. Advances in web technologies, screen quality, and the ever-increasing availability of well-designed fonts now enable us to create highly readable digital products. Today, more than ever, it is essential to understand the tools at our disposal to support content accessibility and engagement, especially within a population that is reading less and less.

Duration: 40 min