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Subject:"Writing for Dyslexic Readers -Reply From:Bill Sullivan <bsullivan -at- SMTPLINK -dot- DELTECPOWER -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:55:51 -0700
>>Does anyone know anything about how to write/layout documents or
(more to my point) Web pages so that dyslexics can more easily read
them? Is there any reading research that can help?
I am sure he is too modest to say this <joke> but TECHWR-Ler Tim
Altom covered this subject in "Designing for Dyslexics" in the May
issue of Intercom. He doesn't provide a formal bibliography, but he
does reference a source in his text.
Bill Sullivan
bsullivan -at- deltecpower -dot- com
San Diego, California
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