Cognitive Web Accessibility: Readability 2009

Automatic readability assessment for people with intellectual disabilities
"My research goal is to advance our understanding of, and quantify, what makes a text easy or difficult to read, in particular for readers with intellectual disabilities."
Comparing evaluation techniques for text readability software for adults with intellectual disabilities
"We introduce our research on the development of software to automatically simplify news articles, display them, and read them aloud for adults with ID."
Five Steps to an Accessible Classroom Website
"Websites should be accessible to those with visual, hearing, movement, cognitive, and speech disabilities." ... "This article presents five steps that will open one's website to a wide community of diverse users: (1) Organize for easier navigation; (2) Navigation without a mouse; (3) Text explanations for images; (4) Using text that makes sense; and (5) Web validators."
Clear Helper: Web Site Design Suggestions for People with Dyslexsia
Summary of relevant recommendations by people who themselves have Dyslexia.
Dyslexia Style Guide - The British Dyslexia Association
"The Dyslexia Style Guide is in three parts: 1. Creating dyslexia friendly written material. 2. Preparing a document for accessibility for text reading software. 3. Dyslexia friendly websites."
What we know about dyslexia and Web accessibility: a research review
"This paper reviews existing literature at the intersection of dyslexia and accessibility research to determine what useful knowledge exists regarding this important and relatively large group of users. This review uncovers that, although there are few published usability tests with dyslexic users, there is a considerable body of knowledge on dyslexia as well as many design guidelines for authoring dyslexic-accessible interfaces."
Comparing evaluation techniques for text readability software for adults with intellectual disabilities
"We introduce our research on the development of software to automatically simplify news articles, display them, and read them aloud for adults with ID." ... "We have found that some forms of questions work well at measuring the difficulty level of a text: multiple-choice questions with three answer choices, each illustrated with clip-art or a photo. Some types of questions do a poor job: yes/no questions and Likert-scale ...".
Automatic readability assessment for people with intellectual disabilities
"My research goal is to advance our understanding of, and quantify, what makes a text easy or difficult to read, in particular for readers with intellectual disabilities."
AltText: A Showcase of User Centred Design in the Netherlands
"In the information processing chain many documents are produced that are inaccessible to the reading impaired. The altText project aims to increase the accessibility of this content ...".
Adaptive User Interfaces: Benefit or Impediment for Lower-Literacy Users?
"This paper addresses web accessibility and usability for lower-literacy users with limited ICT skills. Although adaptive and adaptable user interfaces have been studied and discussed at least since the 80s, the potential of adaptive user interfaces is still far from realization. A main conclusion drawn in this paper is that simple, straightforward and intuitive adaptivity mechanisms may work well, but more complex and pervasive ones don’t, and may even be counterproductive."
Text justification – review of issues and techniques
"Keywords: HTML, CSS3, PDF, readability, dyslexia, hyphenation, word spacing, letter spacing, glyph resizing". Published by PWS Ltd.
Web Design For Dyslexia
Answers to the questions "How should a website homepage be created so that people with dyslexia can get the most out of the page?" and "Why don't you use larger fonts on this web site to make it easier for dyslexic people to read?". Published by Dyslexia The Gift.
Mencap: Am I making myself clear?
"Mencap's guidelines for accessible writing". These guidelines were written to be understandable by people with cognitive disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities.
Introducing the CBBC Accessible Newsreader
"... can be accessed and navigated using a single key press, or a switch device mapped to that key ...". "... for users with reading disabilities or vision impairments is dynamically generated speech via high-end voice synthesis...".