Title: Readability Formulas and the Web
Abstract: Readability on websites should be given
high priority. Web documents have very different characteristics form newspaper
articles or pages in a textbook. Web designers are required to design web
pages that attract surfers, retain and convert them to loyal customers.
This paper is an attempt to explore and investigate issues related to writing
for the web and to check whether the readability formulas/indices can help
in this respect. It aims to answer the following questions: What are the
readability formulas/indexes? What do they measure? How useful are they for
checking that the text is easy to read? Do they help writing for the web?
If not, what is the alternative?
Authors: Ali Al-Badi
and Pam J. Mayhew