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Re: ALL CAPS- Recomendation

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From: Barry
Date: Jan 22, 2022 1:39AM

To add to what has already been posted, I would reluctantly allow two or three words in menu items, for example, but not in titles or text unless they are acronyms. In that case, even some of those might use title case if they are conventionally read out as a word instead of letters, such as Nato.

Blocks of capitalised letters are square, whereas all sighted people read words quicker by recognising the shapes that the letters make in combination as a whole in a word.

It's estimated that sighted readers read all caps words 25% slower than non-capitalised. For someone who is partially sighted or has learning disability, this could make reading considerably longer.

For people with dyslexia, the fully capitalised words can just swim about as if they are alive.