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Font Size for Accessible Media in the Classroom

These two Power Point slides provide a guideline to insure that the font size within print media are accessible when projected.

ACCESS-ed Project, R2D2 Center

How to Determine Font Size for Accessible Media  (PowerPoint Presentation)

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Posted by: Angela Benfield on Mon Oct 10, 2011 at 2:51 p.m.

Easy to understand, but on the whole, this may not be as useful as some lecture halls are really big- what do you do then?

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Posted by: MNVRSAT on Mon Oct 17, 2011 at 11:26 a.m.

Practical easy to use information.

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Posted by: Amber Kozelek on Tue Nov 24, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

Easy to understand and making sure that the font size is big enough for individual's that sit further away in a lecture hall. Also having the font on a back ground that makes the font pop out.

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Posted by: EmmaB on Wed Dec 16, 2020 at 10:47 a.m.

Very easy to understand and definitely needed, especially when presenting strictly over computers these days.

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Posted by: nimo145 on Thu Dec 17, 2020 at 10:01 p.m.

I did have a hard time accessing the link to this PowerPoint lecture for some reason, but overall I thought the information was interesting, especially knowing about the right minimum font size for accessible media depending on how far the seatings are from the screen.

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Posted by: krparisi on Wed Apr 19, 2023 at 11:36 a.m.

I think that this powerpoint is straightforward and useful. The first slide details the guidelines to follow and how to measure while the second slide gives actual examples of font sizes and how they look on the screen.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability