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- Subject: Accessibility, Organizing
Good organizers meet their people where they are.
Reconsider your Internet documents and your printed material. Can your people make the print in your Internet documents bigger?
Consider experimenting with accessible fonts. For example: Luciole, Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, and APHont.
The picture above uses those fonts. Ask people you know with low near vision what fonts they like.
In the U.S., over 25% of people over 50 years old have trouble seeing close up. (https://www.aoa.org/assets/documents/ebo/adult%20eye/409.35zebardast.pdf
Am J Ophthalmol. 2017 February; 174: 134–144)
Worldwide, eight million people have trouble seeing close up. (https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/world-vision-report-post-launch-accessible.pdf)
Injustice in access to health care creates inequalities in people’s vision inside countries and between countries. Ninety percent of people in the world who have vision loss live in middle-income and low-income countries. (https://www.iapb.org/learn/vision-atlas/inequality-in-vision-loss)
Big type for big wins!