> Most people tend not to

Except the whole rationale for going to Calibri in the first place was that it was supposedly more accessible due to being easier to OCR.

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NewJazz 2 days ago | parent [-]

That's the "diversity" they were talking about?? Fucks sake.

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rtkwe 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not, although blind or highly vision impared people who use screen readers sometimes also have to rely on OCR when the document isn't properly formatted with text.

Using a sans serif font generally helps anyone with difficulty distinguishing letters so dyslexic, low vision, aging vision etc. individuals. It's not just for digital OCR.

	▲	MarkusQ 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Using a sans serif font generally helps anyone with difficulty distinguishing letters so dyslexic, low vision, aging vision etc. So far as I'm aware, there is very little actual evidence to support this oft-repeated claim. It all seems to lead back to this study of 46 individuals, the Results section of which smells of p-hacking. https://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/go...