Typography accessibility ensures text remains readable across diverse abilities, technologies, and environmental conditions—addressing not only visual impairments requiring assistive technology but also situational limitations like bright sunlight or moving vehicles. Accessible typography benefits all users through improved legibility while specifically enabling access for users with low vision, dyslexia, or other conditions affecting text perception.
Accessible type treatment balances multiple requirements: sufficient size, adequate contrast, appropriate line spacing, readable fonts, and proper semantic markup. Research shows that implementing typography accessibility guidelines improves readability for low-vision users 60-80% while also improving general reading speed 10-15% and reducing eye strain 20-30% for all users—demonstrating that designing for accessibility creates better experiences universally rather than serving only specific populations.
Accessible typography pairs WCAG-compliant contrast, scalable sizing, semantic structure, and assistive-technology support so every reader—including the 15%+ of people with disabilities—can consume content without hacks.** Teams that codify these rules into their design systems routinely expand their addressable market by 15‑20%, avoid ADA settlements that run Accessible typography pairs WCAG-compliant contrast, scalable sizing, semantic structure, and assistive-technology support so every reader—including the 15%+ of people with disabilities—can consume content without hacks.** Teams that codify these rules into their design systems routinely expand their addressable market by 15‑20%, avoid ADA settlements that run $10k‑$250k, and lift task completion 30‑50% for low-vision and neurodiverse users while simultaneously improving readability for everyone else.0k‑$250k, and lift task completion 30‑50% for low-vision and neurodiverse users while simultaneously improving readability for everyone else. Contemporary research demonstrates these principles achieving 30-40% improvements in user task success.