Abstract
The use of certain font types and sizes improve the reading performance of people with dyslexia. However, the impact of combining such features with the semantics of the text has not yet been studied. In this eye-tracking study with 62 people (31 with dyslexia), we explore whether highlighting the main ideas of the text in boldface has an impact on readability and comprehensibility. We found that highlighting keywords improved the comprehension of participants with dyslexia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result of this kind for people with dyslexia.
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Rello, L., Saggion, H., & Baeza-Yates, R. (2014). Keyword highlighting improves comprehension for people with dyslexia. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014 (pp. 30–37). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-1204
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