Published
on Thursday, March 17, 2005 - 02:14 AM PST
Source: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Summary: Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.
We've known since 1997 how most users read on the Web: they scan text and pick out the pieces that interest them. Content usability guidelines have remained mostly the same since 1997, but now there's news. Read the Full Story
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