Re: accessible font research

Hi Katie

Has the local disability organisation stated why they think Trebuchet  
is not accessible? That is a very bold statement to make without any  
backup!

Best
Matt


On 26 May 2009, at 2:43, [email protected] wrote:

>
> I am working on a small project with a local council with regard to  
> the
> accessibility and readability of their corporate font. They  
> currently use
> Trebuchet but have been criticised by a local disability  
> organisation for
> doing this. They say it is not accessible. As a result they have  
> engaged
> my services to explore and gain opinions from others about the general
> accessibility of Trebuchet in comparison to other (mainly) system  
> fonts.
> They are willing to consider moving to a new font but would prefer  
> this to
> be a system font so that everyone in the organisation can access it. I
> have conducted some primary consultations via telephone and email
> opinion-based research. Before I send out mockups of fonts chosen to  
> trial
> with selected user groups - these have been selected to cover a  
> range of
> impairment, age and other audiences - I would like to ask the  
> following:

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