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Hey, I study special needs education for blind/visually impairment (and for hearing and deafblindness).

I was wondering if people with low vision experience differences between reading different printed alphabets (japanese/ arabic/ latin alphabet/ cyrillic etc) and if certain scripts are easier to read than others?

Does anyone know or know how to find those things out? I discussed it with my prof and he didn't know either.

(If this post seems familiar it might be because I posted it (but worded differently) on reddit too)

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[โ€“] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you played with basic layout like line spacing, left justified vs full justification, increased spacing between paragraphs etc? There's pretty good data that all of those increase readability and reading speed by giving you more features on the page to anchor on.

I'm not visually impaired (not more than the average for my age anyway) but I saw a significant reading speed and comfort increase when I implemented all of those recommendations alongside a comfortably readable font. I imagine they'd work well with Open Dyslexic or a hyperlegible font too.

[โ€“] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, increasing the text size helped a little, but adjusting the spacing, alignment and margins helped a lot. I keep the margins thin/small, the alignment left justified and the spacing moderate-wide. Those adjustments plus the more legible font has made reading almost as easy as before my eyesight was damaged. I do have to focus more though, or the words/letters in the centre of my vision go walkabout!