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A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources
Roboto Mono - Google Fonts
Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. It features a very large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms.
Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer
Charis SIL
Charis SIL is a Unicode-based font family that supports the wide range of languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is specially designed to make long texts pleasant and easy to read, even in less than ideal reproduction and display environments.
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.
Writing dyslexic friendly content: colours and fonts
Accessible fonts for easier readability: the basics
Fonts affect accessibility for visually impaired and dyslexic users. Read our guide to understand how to choose accessible fonts for websites and other documents that are easy to read for everyone.
How to navigate your iPhone or iPad with VoiceOver
Learn how to use VoiceOver, a gesture-based screen reader on iPhone and iPad that gives audible descriptions of what's on your screen.
Digital Access Blog | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services
Tiresias
Tiresias is a family of TrueType sans-serif typefaces that were designed with the aim of legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of Blind People in London.
Accessibility in UX research
Here are our top 10 pieces of advice on conducting research with participants with accessibility needs.
How inclusive user research makes your products better
By listening to the needs of users who are unlike us, we can more easily catch the assumptions that have the potential to sink our products.
Know your DAS - Apps on Google Play
Home - Communication Matters
Dementia and Computing
ZoomText – Freedom Scientific
WCAG 2.1 Article 1.1.1
Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
Learn how to audit your design system for accessibility compliance with inclusive design expert Anna E. Cook.
Typography in Inclusive Design Part 1: 8 key tips for accessible typography
Fonts affect accessibility for visually impaired and dyslexic users. Read our guide to understand how to choose accessible fonts for websites and other documents that are easy to read for everyone.
Rising » FS Me: ‘The accessible type’
FS Me is a typeface family designed by Jason Smith of Fontsmith. Developed with Mencap, a leading UK charity for people with learning disabilities, it was designed to meet, and then exceed, the recommendations of government accessibility guidelines.
Atkinson Hyperlegible
Atkinson Hyperlegible, named after the founder of the Braille Institute, has been developed specifically to increase legibility for readers with low vision, and to improve comprehension.
Accessible typography
On this page we are going to look at some myths and facts about accessible and usable typography as relevant to APA Style. The main takeaway is this: There do not have to be trade-offs—you can have great, expressive, nuanced typography that also meets or exceeds all regulatory and functional accessibility requirements.
Dyslexie Font
Being challenged by dyslexia? Dyslexie font motivates you to start reading more. With the innovative tools, we clear the way through the letter jungle.
Dyslexia Font and Styles
Introducing accessibility in typography
Accessible typography considerations start with choosing type. When selecting typefaces, seek out designs that have legibility built in alongside the other attributes you like. There is no single answer about which fonts are most accessible for everyone, but there are some things that can make a typeface more accessible to some people.
Lexend
Lexend fonts are intended to reduce visual stress and so improve reading performance. Initially they were designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, but Bonnie Shaver-Troup, creator of the Lexend project, soon found out that these fonts are also great for everyone else.
Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit (PDF)
A Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability (PDF)
UNTC