Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
16 results found tagged typography.
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Reading with Diversity in Mind: Pupillometry and Typography Towards Inclusive Design for ADHD Readers
Llana and colleagues at the University of Rhode Island examine how typographic choices interact with ADHD when reading digital text. The motivation is practical: digital reading is now the default for most education and work, and small typographic de…
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Preferred Appearance of Captions Generated by Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
This CHI 2019 Late-Breaking Work (6 pages) investigates a practical question that has received surprisingly little research: when Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is used to caption small-group meetings for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) viewers, h…
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Visualization of Speech Prosody and Emotion in Captions: Accessibility for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users
This CHI 2023 paper tackles a dimension of captioning that has gone largely unaddressed for four decades: captions depict words but strip out the prosody and emotion carried by a speaker's voice. The authors argue that while automatic speech recognit…
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Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
This paper explores a multimodal approach to affective captioning — captions that convey not just the words a speaker says but the emotional dimensions of their voice — for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (dhh) viewers. Prior work has shown that typograph…
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Caption Royale: Exploring the Design Space of Affective Captions from the Perspective of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
This CHI 2024 paper from Rochester Institute of Technology and Tulane tackles a concrete design question: if we want captions to convey a speaker's emotion — not just their words — which typographic modulations should we use? Prior work had establish…
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Reading in Multimodal Environments: Assessing Legibility and Accessibility of Typography for Television
This demonstration paper from BBC Research & Development explores the legibility and accessibility of typography on television, an area that had received surprisingly little research attention despite the increasing complexity of text-based content o…
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Good Fonts for Dyslexia
This paper presents the first experiment using eye tracking to objectively measure the impact of font type on reading performance for people with dyslexia. Using a within-subject design, 48 participants with clinically confirmed dyslexia (ages 11-50)…
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Web Accessibility for Older Adults: Effects of Line Spacing and Text Justification on Reading Web Pages
This poster paper empirically tests two common web accessibility recommendations for older adults: increased line spacing and left-only text justification. The authors note that at least 10 sets of guidelines for making websites accessible to older p…
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The Effect of Font Type on Screen Readability by People with Dyslexia
This eye-tracking study investigates how different font types affect screen reading performance for people with dyslexia compared to non-dyslexic readers. The researchers recruited 97 native Spanish speakers—48 diagnosed with dyslexia and 49 without—…
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Good Background Colors for Readers: A Study of People with and without Dyslexia
This paper presents the first large-scale user study measuring the effect of background colors on screen readability for people with and without dyslexia, providing empirical evidence for the widely recommended but previously unvalidated practice of …