{"id":1810028,"date":"2023-01-18T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810028"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T22:05:06","slug":"biden-state-dept-bars-use-of-times-new-roman-font-citing-disability-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-state-dept-bars-use-of-times-new-roman-font-citing-disability-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden State Dept Bars Use of Times New Roman Font, Citing &#8216;Disability Inclusion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-state-dept-bars-use-of-times-new-roman-font-citing-disability-inclusion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, popular fonts can lead to &#8216;visual recognition problems for individuals with learning disabilities&#8217;.    <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed employees to abandon Times New Roman in official communications. He stated that the popular font is a breach of department&#8217;s commitment to transparency. &#8220;disability inclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a department-wide memo titled &#8220;The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,&#8221; Blinken advised employees to use Calibri font instead. The secretary stated that Calibri font is easier to read for people with reading disabilities. <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/01\/18\/state-department-times-new-roman-calibri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Serif fonts such as Times New Roman\u2014which has decorative tails and feet\u2014can cause &#8220;visual recognition issues for individuals with learning disabilities,&#8221; According to Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>Calibri was recommended by the Secretary&#8217;s Office of Diversity and Inclusion as an alternative font to Microsoft products. &#8220;accessibility best practice,&#8221; According to the memo.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s memo on font-change comes as Secretary of State prepares for a February visit China amid tensions between Washington and Beijing. Families of American hostages held in China have been notified <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/enough-is-enough-families-urge-biden-admin-to-secure-release-of-americans-detained-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressured Blinken<\/a> To bring the prisoners home. Katherine Swidan, whose son is wrongfully in prison, stated &#8220;enough is enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My message for Blinken is: say their names,&#8221; Swidan spoke to Reuters. &#8220;They&#8217;re American citizens. They&#8217;ve been wrongfully detained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In January 2004, the department switched fonts to Times New Roman over Courier New 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday instructed employees to ditch Times New Roman in official communications, saying the popular font undermines the department&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;disability inclusion.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Biden State Dept Bars Use of Times New Roman Font, Citing &#8216;Disability Inclusion&#8217; appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1810031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[15522,9657,4092,3620,6145,4098,15523,11553,10311,4126],"class_list":["post-1810028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-disability","tag-bars","tag-beacon","tag-biden","tag-citing","tag-dept","tag-font","tag-inclusion","tag-roman","tag-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}