Translations:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Repository/Readability research report/67/en

While these quantitative, lab-based studies all recommend relatively large font sizes for text-heavy interfaces like Wikipedia, the Web team's designer doesn't believe we should adopt their recommendations wholesale. Eye tracking studies use sample sizes that are orders of magnitude smaller than the reader numbers we would expect to deal with. Very few of these eye tracking studies deal with sample sizes over 100. Almost none of them deal with sample sizes over 500. "How People Read Online: New and Old Findings" has 750 participants, but it took them over 2 decades to conduct the study.