Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Good Background Colors for Readers: A Study of People with and without Dyslexia

  Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  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 …

  • dyslexia
  • readability
  • color contrast
  • reading accessibility
  • visual design
  • web accessibility
  • typography
  • Meares-Irlen syndrome