2024年12月10日 · The use of clear, legible, and high contrast fonts can reduce barriers and assist readers who process text visually. Sans-Serif fonts are often a good accessible choice. They include Arial, Helvetica, and Lucida Sans. This resource on accessible fonts has more information about preferable fonts and fonts to avoid.

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

When preparing written materials for face to face, blended and/or online delivery, consider the following suggestions to improve readability and accessibility for all learners. The use of Sans Serif fonts such as Arial and Verdana, is preferred and is easier to read. When emphasizing text use bold or a heavy font. Avoid light or thin fonts.

In documents and webpages, use around 12-point font for typical body text and for any footnotes or endnotes, use a 9-point font. If you’re delivering a presentation, aim for 18-point font or larger for the body text of your slides. Use simple, familiar fonts.

2024年2月25日 · To create structured documents that screen readers can navigate, it’s important to use styles, rather than manually adjusting font size to be large like a heading, or typing your own list numbers/bullet points.

2018年4月30日 · Describes 15 ways to use Microsoft Word as a Universal Design for Learning tool for reading text, including using color, wide margins, translation, text-to-speech, font styles, weblinks, bullets, book view, and highlighter feature, to help students with disabilities or neurodiversities.

Choose a sans-serif font like Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Futura or Verdana. Upper case, lower case and numeric characters of a sans-serif font are easier to recognize and read than serif fonts.

Creating an accessible and universal learning experience is possible by following those simple tips: Use contrasting colors and readable fonts for students with vision problems. Use transcripts or subtitles for students with hearing problems.

Use existing formatting tools whenever possible instead of manually creating the look of headings, lists, columns or tables. Use bold and italic text only for the most important information. Avoid using text colors, highlights, underlines, or extra spaces as the only method to convey information.

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