Making Arabic Accessible: Developing a Typeface for Dyslexic Readers Through a User-Centred Design Approach

  • Muneera Hejres (Speaker)
  • Tinker, A. (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Description

Dyslexia-friendly typefaces for the Latin script have been proliferating during the last decade. The typefaces are designed to tackle the challenges faced in a dyslexic reading experience by manipulating its letters' form and typographic attributes; several studies reported a positive effect on the reading experience. To this date, no working dyslexia-friendly Arabic typefaces are available for the public. This
study combines a user-centred design (UCD) approach with Maag’s Pillars of Accessible Type (MPAT) as a theoretical framework to design and evaluate an Arabic-accessible typeface for dyslexic readers.
Period27 Jun 2024
Held atLab4Living, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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