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Readability refers to the ease of reading and understanding a text. The need to ensure the readability of Web pages is related to universal access to products and services in the information society, which aims to provide an Internet for all. This article describes a study conducted to assess the readability of textual contents of Web portals of 40 universities at the top positions in international university rankings to determine whether the best universities have readable web pages. Mathematical formulas that evaluate syntactic difficulty of text oriented to texts written in English or in Spanish were applied.

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The objective of this paper is the assessment of the comprehensibility in museum panels, considering that they are addressed to all audiences and written in standard language. The indicators proposed in the scientific bibliography on comprehensibility are compiled. Subsequently, their application to the museum panels is analyzed. A corpus is built with the texts of panels from six museums and the difficulty of the panels is evaluated by means of classical metrics and tests on users’ perception. The ability of these classic metrics to predict the difficulty for the user is computed with automatic learning methods. Linguistic and term familiarity indicators have been added to improve the accuracy of the assessment. The most effective way to predict the degree of comprehensibility is a hybrid model of classical, linguistic and term familiarity indicators.

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An experimental method to examine the relationships between graphic design and comprehension of information published in magazines and/or print journals is presented. The method is used to observe if the graphic design in a journalistic report makes it possible to have a better understanding of the meaning of the information. The starting hypothesis is that the design, beyond guaranteeing the readability of the text, can support understanding the story more quickly and effectively, in addition to making it more attractive. This research uses a new multidisciplinary approach, and no known previous research exists in which journalistic design and reading comprehension are methodologically related. The objective of this model is to establish the fundamental role of journalistic design in quality journalism, which runs contrary to the current popularity of basic standardization.