Oral literacy demand of healthcare communication
Identifies strategies for effective oral communications, especially for people with low literacy skills: “strip it down,” “bring it home,” and “mix it up.” Continue reading
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The simplicity complex: exploring simplified health messages in a complex world
This article suggests that the usual indicators of “readability” (word and sentence length) are not reliable predictors of comprehension. Continue reading
Making the web friendlier for lower-literacy users
Challenges low-literacy users have and some techniques to follow so users could get more out of their web experience. Continue reading
Who does better with a big interface?
Discussed the effect of current ballot interfaces on user performance with people who were diagnosed and those undiagnosed with a disability. Continue reading
Design approaches for developing user-interfaces accessible to illiterate users
Examined both technological literacy and written language literacy while providing some guidelines. Continue reading
Mobile interface design for low-literacy populations
Studied graphical user interface widgets and cross-page navigation styles. Continue reading
Designing web-based forms for users with lower literacy skills
Report on research to how low-literacy users react to web-based medical forms and develop design principles for creating these forms Continue reading
Reading and navigational strategies of web users with lower literacy skills
A two-year study to understand the differences between the reading and navigational strategies of users with medium to high literacy skills and those with lower literacy skills. Continue reading