Test Your Text
Since text is part of your user interface, you can test text as part of a regular usability test. But that’s not all you can do. Usability expert Angela Colter encourages also testing your text using a Cloze test.[26]
In a Cloze test, you remove some of the words of your text and then ask test participants to find the missing words. Following is a sample.
Colter suggests picking sample text from your product that is between 125 and 250 words and then removing every fifth word. Ask participants to fill in the missing words. Calculate the test score by dividing the number of correct answers by the total number of removed words.
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