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Times New Roman and Helvetica not the best fonts for accessibility (www.linkedin.com)

submitted 2 years ago by dankeck to c/technology

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20 Fonts, 2022 test participants, each font evaluated 16,800 times each over 7,000 study hours.

seeing Times New Roman performing better than any of the fonts recommended for dyslexia casts doubt both on their accessibility claims and also the common belief that serifs are bad news.

One last thing to note is that Helvetica never found itself anywhere near the top 5, which shows 2 things. Users were not clicking on what they see every day, and as it performed particularly badly with both dyslexic and vision impaired participants, maybe as a font we can finally say for certain that it is not fit for any digital environment.

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