{"id":802,"date":"2012-03-21T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2012-03-21T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:32:55","slug":"web-accessibility-tip-7-3212012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Web Accessibility Tip #7, 3\/21\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Text Readability<\/h2>\n<p>Keep the following guidelines in mind for displaying <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/textlayout\/\">text<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid very small text. This not only impacts some users with low vision, but many users with cognitive disabilities as well.<\/li>\n<li>While serif fonts (e.g., Times) are more readable when printed, both serif and sans-serif fonts are appropriate when displaying body text onscreen, as long as the font is clean and readable.<\/li>\n<li>Underlined text should be avoided, except to designate links.<\/li>\n<li>Minimize the number of different fonts used on a page. Two to three fonts is optimal.<\/li>\n<li>ALL CAPS should be used minimally. It is more difficult to read and is often interpreted as &#8220;shouting&#8221;. Additionally, screen readers may read all-caps text letter by letter (like an acronym) rather than as full words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=802\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Readability Keep the following guidelines in mind for displaying text: Avoid very small text. This not only impacts some users with low vision, but many users with cognitive disabilities as well. While serif fonts (e.g., Times) are more readable when printed, both serif and sans-serif fonts are appropriate when displaying body text onscreen, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}