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Text Customization

Also known as: User Text Preferences, Text Personalization

The ability for users to adjust the visual presentation of text content to suit their individual reading needs, including modifying font size, typeface, line spacing, letter spacing, color contrast, and background color. Text customization is frequently recommended as an accessibility solution for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, though research suggests that only about half of users can accurately identify which settings objectively improve their reading performance. Effective accessibility design should provide customization options alongside well-chosen defaults that benefit the broadest range of readers.

Category: user experience · cognitive accessibility

Related: Dyslexia · Readability · User Preferences

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