Accessible Font Version 2

Summary Accessible Font is a typeface that occurred with the results of the research project. This study conducted at the University of Esad.Cr. It was investigated the reading difficulties of individuals with autism based on learning difficulties. Design and research process of the project took three years. Accessible font was developed to use in the reading education of individuals with autism and learning disabilities. Accessible font is based on the opinions of special education teachers, legibility research and interviews. Accessible Font has a legible and multilanguage structure with 5 versions eight sets six weight. It has customisation support, so teachers can use different fonts according to the variable learning to read difficulties on individuals. In this way, teachers can make effective teaching according to individuals problem in reading education. --- Research The research consists from a literature review on autism, interview with special education teachers Turkey and survey study Turkey, England, USA . In the study, it was seen that reading problems of individuals with autism don't characterize with autistic symptomology nor dyslexia. It was concluded their reading profile is delayed impairment reading profile and it may due to learning disabilities. For this reason, the font family was developed not only for individuals with autism but also for individuals who have difficulty in learning to read. Accessible fon was developed with various versions and sets to meet different individuals needs in learning to read. --- Design The design process is based on the opinions of special education teachers, reading errors and readability research. as a result of the design process, Accessible font came up with five versions, eight sets and six weights v.1, v.5 . In this context, the typeface design allows the teachers to change the font design according to the mistakes made by the student in reading education and their needs in learning to letter or words. version 1 and version 5 are prepared for long texts as legible structure. Version 2, 3 and 4 are designed to reduce students' reading errors and help to learn phonics. Accessible font design is unique no font has been prepared before according to these features and the ways. The version 2, 3 and 4 has been prepared by going beyond the conventional type design. In order to achieve this, the most common letterforms pairs that cause misreadings were identified by research, and new features serif or stimuli were added or redesign again to reduce to similarities between similar letterforms as an example b-d, p-q-g, n-m, I-l-i, . The serifs that applied on the letterforms have placed to different directions than each other in order to identify letterforms structure easily. Each version has unique features please check the version features to understand the differences in the design process. --- Version 2 The Regular v.2 font was designed especially for individuals who have difficulties in distinguishing letterforms between basic Latin and extended characters. Serif features were applied on extended letterforms so that extended letterforms were separated from the basic Latin characters as a different shape. This hybrid version was developed to help the individuals who learn reading with letter-based learning system but, it can use in the word-based learning system to identify better the characters in the word. The letterforms o and are designed in different forms to have a distinctive structure. The teacher can choose the set 1 option and convert the serif character to sans serif so that only the letterforms of a, b, d, p, q, f' stay as different letterforms from v.1. Set 2 provides to swap the serif feature on the extended characters to basic Latin characters. In this way, basic Latin characters will have serif but extended characters will not have serif feature. Accessible Font is compatible for web and printing. The accessible typeface family was created based on the practices of the educators, typeface designers and researchers in the fields of psychology. The aim of the typeface study is to find solutions to the problems of the individuals who have difficulties in reading and the process of learning to read. Accessible Font was designed with a large x-height, large dotes, diacritics characters, legible structure, large letter-spacing side bearings , different letterform combinations and reducing similarities between letterforms. The Accessible stand out with extended characters that support almost 200 Latin-based languages, covering math symbols, punctuation, and currencies. Accessible font family is a simple and harmonious appearance as well as it offers great customization support to the pedagogues with differences in letterform design and stylistic combinations. As a result, a typeface is appeared to meet the individual requirements in which the teachers can change the character design according to students needs. This makes the Accessible font acc