What is the best font to use for accessibility?
Simply put, there is no best font for accessibility, but that is not to say that for any particular user there will not be a ‘most accessible font’, there will be; but it will not be the same font for every user. Whereas, in the physical world of printed documents, this implies creating several different versions of every document; one to meet the presentation needs of each individual – on the web, with the help of style sheets, we can provide one page capable of being presented in many different ways. We can’t predict what will be the most accessible font for any particular user – so we have to fall back on the assumption that the user knows what is best; the most accessible font therefor will be the one they pick themselves. For example, this may be a custom font designed to assist someone with a particular eye condition. Your job as an accessible website designer is not to get in the way of the users’ ability to set their own preferences – and in relation to typographical matters –
