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All I can add is my partner is a dyslexia teacher and assessor, and we tested those fonts on a range of pupils when building her latest website. None aided our

• thenerdfiles 13y ago
  I'm curious to know the scope and concrete findings and anecdotal findings/reports of your tests. What was the nature of the literature/content on the website? Longform? Marketing? Blurbs? Did you test for memory? Comprehension? Speed? Aside from aiding, did the fonts hurt comprehension? Hurt readability?
  • porker 13y ago
    There were no concrete findings - these were informal tests in a field where concrete findings are nigh-on impossible. The website is a mix of marketing and longform, advertising dyslexia services. Often it's read by the parent of a dyslexic so there's two audiences to address. Of the dyslexics we tested with, all found the fonts hurt readability and they were seeing individual letters (instead of words) more than they were with a standard font (Source Sans Pro). The parents we also tested found the 'Dyslexic' fonts very hard to read. So for our small sample of children it didn't help, and in this situation wasn't worth pursuing. Most of these children IIRC find a coloured overlay is all they need to read acceptably; colour and contrast is another thing I'd have liked to test but there's only so much you can subject children (who aren't your own) to!