Strategy: Font changed to sans serif Verdana
8 Keywords: Text, Fonts, Colour, Sans Serif, Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman,
"I've changed text - print-size I have kept the same: font 12, but I have changed from Times New Roman to Verdana. That did help massively. I think it is just clearer, with easier spacing of the letters. It just made it a lot easier to see on the page. I was told by Andrew, who works in the Assistive Technology Centre who said there are a few different fonts worth using. I would not have thought to use it at all." (ATS guide on Word Accessibility)
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"I noticed that I was really struggling with a few elements of the course – mostly my reading. Originally I started off with a light blue background which helped. Recently I have changed it to quite a bright yellow background (which I did not originally because the darker colours I struggled with) and I have changed text."
- TomTip
If you want to see the impact of dyslexia, visual stress or scotopic sensistivity on reading JISC TechDis SimDis has some samples. Microsoft Windows has some advice about which fonts look good in presentations. You may find it hard to find some scientific fonts for web pages - try some Mathematical or Physics symbol gifs
