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The Computer-Aided Estimate of the Text Readability on the Web Pages

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Multimedia and Internet Systems: Theory and Practice

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 183))

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The chapter deals with the methodology of creating computer aided text readability system. Special attention concentrates on the rules helpful for a creation of readability of the text on the Web pages. Major factors are: typeface, font size, leading, text block width, text colour and background colour. Finally the system and its tests are presented.

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, Poland, Łódź

    Radosław Bednarski & Maria Pietruszka

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Division of Information Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland

    Aleksander Zgrzywa

  2. Institute of Informatics, Division of Information Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Wrocław, 50-370, Poland

    Kazimierz Choroś

  3. Institute of Informatics, Division of Information Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, Wrocław, 50-370, Poland

    Andrzej Siemiński

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Bednarski, R., Pietruszka, M. (2013). The Computer-Aided Estimate of the Text Readability on the Web Pages. In: Zgrzywa, A., Choroś, K., Siemiński, A. (eds) Multimedia and Internet Systems: Theory and Practice. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 183. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32335-5_20

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