Any figures, such as maps or pictograms, were removed, and content was then formatted as plain text and uploaded to a free online tool (http://www.readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php/) from which different readability indicators were obtained (Technical Appendix).
We describe the strategies available to evaluate the characteristics of online health information, including readability, emotional content, understandability, usability.
The purpose of this review was to evaluate the accuracy, quality, and readability of online physical activity, exercise, and sport information for people with schizophrenia.
As anyone who has ever worked on newspaper or magazine layouts know, drop caps are the quickest way to make an article look professional, even though starting with an enlarged capital letter adds very little to the readability of online text.
The text was placed into the online calculator and the readability score obtained for each input.
This study is the first to evaluate the readability of online breast cancer risk assessment tools and the information accompanying those tools.
The report, published on July 22nd, has shot to the top of Amazon's list of bestselling books online (see article).For sheer readability, the commission has produced something to be emulated by all future government reports.
NSF is also working to improve the readability of the online abstracts that describe every successful proposal.
Our purpose is to quantitatively assess the readability levels of online radiology educational materials, written for the public, in 20 major university hospitals.
The content of all leaflets were entered into an automated online program to calculate their readabilities using the above formulae [ 33].
