There are a number of physical features which may affect readability such as font size, clear design and layout and extra textual features (pictures and diagrams).

In order to facilitate readability consider:

• Altering layout, titles, headings, subheadings and fonts;
• Adding aids as appropriate. These may include: pictures, diagrams, charts, maps, tables, graphs, vocabulary lists and definitions, glosses, pre- and during text questions, abstracts, L1 abstracts, hypertext links to further texts or non-textual aids, footnotes, recapitulations…..   

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