Wikispaces 2:
Readability & Icon Know-How
Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D.

Readability & the Icons
• Readability - how the eye connects to text
• Icons - what the icons do

How Our Eyes Move
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

Writing for the Web
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
Web pages have to employ scannable text, using
• highlighted keywords
• meaningful headings
• bulleted lists
• one idea per paragraph
• the inverted pyramid style, starting with the
conclusion
• half the word count of conventional writing

To highlight a keyword:
add colour

Meaningful Headings:
Always use this menu to create headings for
readability and for creating a Table of Contents