Translations:Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Repository/Readability research report/21/en

In a study of new and casual English readers, we received conflicting feedback on the current readability of Wikipedia. Many participants said that they find the current fonts comfortable to read, "minimal", and fine. In other portions of the study, participants complain about too much information density and overwhelming "congestion."$1 This suggests that, while readers like the typeface of Wikipedia, changes to article typography might improve readability. In order to create an approach to improving readability for casual readers, Web team's designer reviewed the current literature on readability for web interfaces. These articles tended to fall into 4 categories: