Shumaila Hussain

Incorporating Usability in Readability Formulas Shumaila Hussain

Readability is how easily can one read the text, the importance of the readability was initially felt in the early 18 century and the first consideration was school text books. Later on knowing the intense importance of readability the readability formulas were evolved to analyze the readability of the text material. These formulas are the statistical measures for the readability analysis. They mostly describe the level of the text and predict the results determining that this text content is found appropriate for a certain grade level students or the readers. These readability analyzers were enthusiastically adopted and used for many decades. The researchers now have come up with the conclusion that these formulas do not incorporate all factors that strongly affect readability it is therefore that their results are not much accurate. It is furthermore observed that these readability formulas lack the usability support in them. My thesis prioritizes all the factors effecting readability moreover I have incorporated the factor strongly affecting the readability in readability formula not only this but I have suggested a URM Model for the better readability analysis.