Readability Update | Health Sciences Enterprise CMS

This article addresses the following topics:

Overview of Text Display Updates
How These Updates Affect Your Site
Implementation Timeline
Additional Resources

Overview of Text Display Updates

The Web Platform is implementing a comprehensive update to improve how text is displayed across sites, aimed at enhancing readability and visual appeal. This update addresses two key areas:

Device Compatibility: Ensuring content displays effectively on both desktop and mobile devices.
Accessibility: Supporting users with diverse accessibility needs by reducing large blocks of text and optimizing paragraph breaks.

The new text display adjustments will roll out in phases, each aimed at making content more approachable for readers by preventing large, dense text blocks and creating a more visually consistent user experience.

How These Updates Affect Your Site

The update primarily impacts text formatting and paragraph breaks on your site. This will improve readability by:

Device-Dependent Formatting: Text will now break more evenly across lines based on device type (desktop or mobile), keeping paragraphs concise and easy to read on any screen.
Balanced Paragraphs: Long paragraphs will be automatically adjusted to improve readability, especially for users who may find dense text challenging.

These updates ensure text flows better on all devices, supporting a smoother user experience and accommodating readers with accessibility requirements.

Implementation Timeline

The phased implementation of these text display changes will begin on October 25th, 2024. Key points of the timeline include:

Automatic Updates: Most minor text adjustments will apply automatically, impacting overall readability without significantly altering content layout.
Site-by-Site Review: To maintain each site’s unique visual style, the Web Platform Team will activate major text layout updates individually, ensuring that content remains visually pleasing on all devices.

This phased rollout will allow the Web Platform Team to support each site in preserving both style and functionality as these accessibility improvements are applied.