#Accessible Fonts

[shawnjordison]

Accessible Fonts for Section 508 Compliance

Today’s topic is how to set accessible fonts in Microsoft Word documents, to ensure section 508 compliance. Using the right font is a big step in making your Word documents accessible to all. Video Guide What Are Accessible Fonts? Accessible fonts don’t slow user reading speed. This is especially important for those with low vision or reading disability, or people who are blind. The right font…

[beggars-opera]

I work in a museum so I am the last person you want to visit a museum with. Unless you want to hear an endless stream of "there is no way this text had input from the educational team for average visitor clarity" "the old woman next to me complained she couldn't read the didactic panel and she's right, size 20 font simply isn't sufficient for this distance and even I can't read it" and "how does the brand new wing still have coat hooks five and a half feet off the ground in the handicap bathroom stall"

[adasitecompliance]

How To Choose Accessible Fonts

The fonts known for providing maximum web accessibility are Times New Roman, Verdana, Cabri, Helvetica, and Tahoma. Other slab serif fonts like Arvo Museo Slab and Rockwell are also accessible!

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: I swear to God, Chat - I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I am going to break up Fit and Pac.

Mike passed the crown of #1 Hideduo hater to Tubbo, and Tubbo took that title very seriously.

[ Full Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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Pac: I have a date with Fit tomorrow! You know the news, Tubbo?

[ Tubbo's Homophobic Arc ]

Pac: I got a date with Fit tomorrow!

Tubbo: You're - no... You're kidding..

Pac: Yeah, for real! Look - Mike shaved my hair you know, and gave me a new outfit so I can be like, sharp for tomorrow. ...You guys like it? You like it, Sunny?

[Judgemental silence]

Tubbo: That's so cool man, what he hell. That's fckin' sick.

Pac: Yeah, thank you! I knew it, I knew you'd- Oh, thank you, Sunny! I knew you guys were gonna love it, you know? I knew it.

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Tubbo: I swear to God- I swear to God- We need to add homophobia to the QSMP, I swear to God- I swear to God-

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Tubbo: Guys, I have to do everything in my power to break them up. What do you mean "no"?! This is awful, Sunny! This is awful!

Sunny: But why Pa?

Tubbo: THEY WERE NEVER MEANT TO GET TOGETHER! The stars told me so! They were never meant to actually get together!

Sunny: WHY PA

Tubbo: It's just wrong, Sunny! It's just wrong! I dunno how to explain it to you. It's just wrong!

Sunny: But it's loveeeee

Tubbo: ...If that's what you want to call it.

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Tubbo: HOW IS THERE GONNA BE ENOUGH SPACE BETWEEN THEM FOR ME NOW, SUNNY?!

Sunny: You're telling me you've never been in love Pa?

Tubbo: Listen, it's just not right.

Sunny: But I like bodyguard Fit and driver Pac :(

Tubbo: I like them too! They're my best friends! But they can't be together.

Sunny: I think you are projecting

Tubbo: PROJECTING WHAT? HUH!?

Sunny: I will find you someone, Pa.

Tubbo: I DON'T WANT SOMEONE! I DON'T WANT SOMEONE IT ONLY SERVES TO DISAPPOINT ME AND GET MY HOPES UP AND LEAVE ME- LEAVE ME NOTHING BUT A SHELL! A SHELL OF A MAN!

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Tubbo: Sunny - They're gonna hurt each other, Sunny- they're gonna hurt each other! And how will there be enough space between them for me now?

Sunny: Why would they do that if they care for each other?

Tubbo: People that care about each other, Sunny, hurt each other all the time! ALL THE TIME!

Sunny: But I care about you, and I don't hurt you.

Tubbo: No, that's different! That's different! The love that we have for each other is unconditional. Ok?

Sunny: Pa, I think you're just scared.

Tubbo: I'm not scared, I'm logical. All flags look red when you're wearing rose-tinted glasses.

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Tubbo: [In response to Sunny talking about Aypierre's agreement to build her a statue] You already have a statue! [Sunny hits him] Ow!

Tubbo: What about the one Fit and Ramon made you for your birthday? [Tubbo has an idea] See? Do you think Fit would have time to do stuff like that if he's too- if he's too preoccupied with his little shag buddy? I don't think so! I don't think so!

Sunny: Wait.

Tubbo: See? You see what I'm saying? You see what I'm saying!

Sunny: You have a good point now

Tubbo: See? You under- yes, exactly! We HAVE to break them up! They can still be friends! Fck it, friends with benefits! But they cannot be together. We cannot let them.

Sunny: OK I'M IN

Tubbo: [Claps] I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU! I knew I could count on you!

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[Looking at fanart of Pac, Fit, and himself]

Tubbo: We- we have to split them up. We have to fckin' split them up. Oh, but I'm in this one! Oh, that's so-[Realizes it's him crying as a third-wheel] SEE?! SEE?! THEY KNEW! THEY KNEW! THEY FCKIN' KNEW! THEY FCKIN' KNEW!

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Tubbo: [In a thick "red-blooded American" accent] Wha- I just don't understand why they have 'ta keep shoving it down our throats! Goddamnit! I JUST WISH IT WASN'T MY SMP! [He hits his desk and laughs]

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Dono: Streamer becomes homophobic 'cause he can't get any

Tubbo:

Tubbo: Sunny, I'm just gonna need to brb for a moment.

Tubbo: [Stands up from his desk, walks away, and screams]

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Tubbo: I swear to God, Chat - I promise you - if it's the last thing I do, I am going to break up Fit and Pac.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Arthur wanting to shake John's hand (and all of the beginning of ep 24 really) is my Roman empire.

What are you talking about that never happened in Part 24, the major event there was Arthur trying to get the coldest cleanest dap with John

[whewchilly]

Tell me we'll never get used to it

Scheherazade Richard Siken

Scuderia Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel

[front-facing-pokemon]

[yojiapparelprints]



I think I found the Japanese equivalent to Comic Sans.

So I've always had trouble reading Japanese on the default windows font, because it was made for a much different kind of monitor where it doesn't look shit. After stealing some shady code off the internet and searching for hours for the perfect font, I chose Zen Kurenaido. It's one of those fonts that roud up everything so there's no sharp edges. I chose it thinking it would cause the same effect as san serif fonts do in the Latin alphabet.

Serif fonts, like this, are ideal for print, because they add sharp edges that do not smudge as easily, meaning it's easier to read. On your display, however, it looks busy and tires the eye, which is why in digital we usually use sans serif, which is rounder and easier to process.

My idea was that I would be able to read Japanese faster if I got rid of the edges and abstracted the characters to their base shape.

It works. However, there is a catch.

It looks godawful.

It looks condescending. It's like it's looking down to me. Moreover, it reminds me of this:

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the font, it is objectively very good. It just doesn't feel right. And the problem is, it actually does what I wanted it to do. I can absolutely read Japanese faster and more comfortably now. It is improving my life, it is helping me so much. It just looks so damn goofy.

I can't even respect my kanji of the day extension anymore. It looks like a street sign you hang at the airport so the foreign tourists don't feel intimidated by the language.

But man, subtitles are on easy mode now.

I can actually catch up with the auto captions now. I've never been able to do that before, I just assumed my kanji knowledge was bad, but no, it was just the damn edges making it hard to read. And now I have to live with the fact that this goofy ass font is objectively the best way to read Japanese digitally. I can't ever change it back. I made this hell for myself.

[siroofington]

[ID: a manga page from Nabari no Ou that's been colored in shades of blue. It's a full-page illustration of an underwater scene where Miharu and Hanabusa are shown among various fish and sea creatures. They're very old species, some of which are extinct. Hanabusa is central on the page, holding her hand up to a coelacanth as she narrates:

"The atoms that rained down on earth from space became the ocean. They became life. And eventually, they became us. If a type of life was interrupted, it became a part of the land. And now, after an extraordinary amount of time, it quietly gives us pieces of the memories from when it was alive... It doesn't matter if the life lasted a few minutes or hundreds of years. It all accumulates and helps to raise up the next life. Mankind may only have been born in a corner of a corner of the earths timeline, but we're still connected to 4.6 billion years of memories. Isn't it exciting to think that that includes you?"

End ID]

Trans. Alethea & Athena Nibley, coloring by me

[chronicallycouchbound]

Free accessible font options for disabled people:

• Hyperlexic font for people with low vision, Atkinson hyperlexic: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

• Dyslexia-friendly font, open dyslexic: https://opendyslexic.org/

• Dyslexia-friendly font, inconsistent regular: https://danielbrokstad.com/Inconstant-Regular

• Focus Ex for ADHD, font and browser extension: https://focusex-extension.webflow.io/#welcome-a

• Additionally, comic sans is dyslexic friendly!

[goddamnshinyrock]

someone on reddit like 'art museums are more prestigious than science or history museums'

that's what we call terminal art museum brain right there.

[adasitecompliance]

Web Accessibility

Looking for accessible fonts for your website? Comprehensive guide on choosing the right fonts to make your content more readable for all!

[bigfootsmom]

I love tag/wip games a lot I think they’re a really great way to connect with people in the fandom and make friends and to cheer each other on in our projects!! But I noticed a new one and it’s giving me some pause. I don’t know where screenshot friday came from but I’m probably not going to be interacting with that tag game since it’s creating a big accessibility gap for anyone who uses a screen reader, or has certain text settings to enlarge text, or has a hard time reading certain fonts for whatever reason (ex. dyslexia). I’m not telling anyone to stop doing it I just don’t feel comfortable participating.

[zoobus]

"Change the font of this doc to Times New Roman so it matches policy"

I checked our style guide and it says to use the sans serif font Calibri, which is accessible and 508 compliant, so no.

"??? Change it back to TNR, it needs to match policy so it's 508 compliant. "

Okay. I just looked up what "policy" you're referring to and this is an unpublished paper about cybersecurity, made by a different department in a different format. I'm not sure why you keep calling it "policy" but here's a direct link to Section 508 §402.4, "Characters on Display Screens," and an explanation for why serif font like TNR is considered inaccessible. Are you asking us to break the law or what

[no answer]

[The next day; little boss]: heeyyyy guuyyys, so the guy you were beefing with in the Word comments said while calibri may look cooler, policy follows [style guide that mentions accessible once and it's just to show you how to spell it], so change it back to TNR