A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

#Fonts "#accessible fonts" #English
Andika
Andika
Andika is a sans-serif font family designed and optimized especially for literacy use. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work.
·software.sil.org·
Andika
APHont Font
APHont Font

PHont (pronounced Ay’-font), was developed by APH specifically for low vision readers. APHont embodies characteristics that have been shown to enhance reading speed, comprehension, and comfort for large print users.

The entire APHont Suite is available free-of-charge to qualified users for non-commercial purposes.

·fontspace.com·
APHont Font
FS Me Font
FS Me Font
When most of us go about everyday tasks, we take for granted the reading that’s involved, on instructions, labels and so on. For people with learning disabilities, reading is made much harder by certain fonts. FS Me is designed specifically to improve legibility for people with learning disabilities.
·myfonts.com·
FS Me Font
Lexie Readable
Lexie Readable

Lexie Readable (formerly Lexia Readable) was designed with accessibility and legibility in mind, an attempt to capture the strength and clarity of Comic Sans without the comic book associations.

Features like the non-symmetrical b and d, and the handwritten forms of a and g may help dyslexic readers.  You can read more about the story behind Lexie Readable in the Kernel.

·k-type.com·
Lexie Readable
The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy
The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy
A single-subject alternating treatment design was used to investigate the extent to which a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, impacted reading rate or accuracy compared to two commonly used fonts when used with elementary students identified as having dyslexia.
·link.springer.com·
The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy