Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Readability guidelines: Difference between revisions

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{{see also|user:Edokter/fonttest}}

{{strong|Note}}: when viewing those examples, result may vary if you have customized your font size in your browser or style sheet, if you are using the zoom ("Ctrl +/-") -– note that "Ctrl 0" resets zoom to default -– or depending on your screen and its resolution.

*<span style="font-size:13px;">Font size sample: 13 pixels. This is the default text size on Wikipedia.</span>

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The visual delimitations provided by blocks of text and lines have a major impact for users with [[dyslexia]].

Among the most commons cases are text justification, too much contrast and interline spacing within a paragraph. However, dyslexia is only one case among many others, mentioned here because it is the most evidently concerned. --[[Utilisateur:Temesis|Temesis]]

:First input received, about dyslexia -– a sizable portion of our audience:

:<blockquote><p>> Does this layout with its border and alternating background color makes reading easier from your point of view?</p><p>Without any hesitation, YES, and its a passionate outcry!</p><p>I'd even say it's like the difference between day and night. With the indentation alone I find myself quickly lost, I have a hard time to distinguish the different users posting, I have a hard time to see who is replying to who.</p><p>It requires more effort to read the text than to understand it's meaning. In small doses its manageable, bot tiredness comes quickly and there comes a time when I renounce.</p></blockquote>

:A simple complementary remark: discussions readability is considerably improved several contexts of the everyday users: when the user is traveling, with suboptimal means of consultation such as a Smartphone and Ipad. For example, it's the first time discussions on Wikipedia is decipherable in the train, to be very prosaic. --[[Utilisateur:Temesis|Temesis]] ([[Discussion utilisateur:Temesis|d]]) 3 février 2010 à 14:45 (CET)