Hey, I study special needs education for blind/visually impairment (and for hearing and deafblindness).
I was wondering if people with low vision experience differences between reading different printed alphabets (japanese/ arabic/ latin alphabet/ cyrillic etc) and if certain scripts are easier to read than others?
Does anyone know or know how to find those things out? I discussed it with my prof and he didn’t know either.
(If this post seems familiar it might be because I posted it (but worded differently) on reddit too)
I feel like the difference between symbols matters. Fonts to read with fingers are made from dots because it’s 0\1, dot or no dot, for fingers are pretty much like an eye with a very limited sight, they would have trouble discerning 6 and G, M and N. When languages like Ukrainian or Russian use similarly shaped letters i\ï or е\ё, they become confusing, as this 10% of information in dots decides what the letter means. Like a QR code, they should have enough ways of correcting the coded message even if you lose a part of image or misread it. When my eyes are tired, sans serif fonts read better than serif ones, fonts making letters like g unique by pronouncing it’s hanging loop are easier, and the less dublicate letters the better.
I found this link if you haven’t seen it: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/readability_and_accessibility It sounds like it fits your question.