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Reading and navigational strategies of Web users with lower literacy skills

✍ Scribed by Kathryn Summers; Michael Summers

Book ID
102507319
Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
182 KB
Volume
42
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-7870

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

About half of the adults in the U.S. read at the 8th grade level or below (Kirsch, Junegeblut, Jenkins, & Kolstad, 1993). Yet most websites are written at the 10th grade level or higher. The goal of this two‐year study, sponsored by Pfizer, was twofold: 1) to understand the differences between the reading and navigational strategies of users with medium to high literacy skills and those with lower literacy skills; 2) to learn how to make web‐based medical content usable and accessible for lower‐literacy adults, and to develop design principles that could be used to design websites that would meet the needs of both higher and lower literacy users.

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