Words Matter: Writing for EveryoneAllison Ravenhall @RavenAlly
Digital Accessibility Sensei
Intopia @Intopiadigital
Hello!
I like LEGO, cats, karate, and making stuff accessible
I’m from Melbourne (“mel-bun”) Australia
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My job description
I am a digital accessibility consultant.
I advise organisations about training, requirements, design,
testing and implementation of accessible web sites and native
mobile apps. I am particularly interested in the wording and
presentation of text, instructions and errors.
I am a digital accessibility consultant.
I advise organisations about training, requirements, design,
testing and implementation of accessible web sites and native
mobile apps. I am particularly interested in the wording and
presentation of text, instructions and errors.
The Up Goer Five version
In my job, I help computer-people build things that lots of
people can use, considering different sight, hearing, moving
and thinking. I give ideas and try things and suggest fixes to
problems. I also write and present training. I like to focus on
how we use words.
Flesch Reading Ease0 – 30 = Very hard to read
60 – 70 = Plain English
90 – 100 = Very easy to read
Flesch-Kincaid Grade LevelMore focus on sentence length
Passive Sentences“Mistakes were made by the presenter”
vs. “The presenter made mistakes”
1.4.8 Showing Words: When showing words:
1. Let people pick their own colours for words and the area behind words
2. Show up to 80 letters and things in a line (or 40 if wide picture-letters)
3. Don't put words against left and right edges of the area at the same time.
4. Make line spacing (leading) at least space-and-a-half within word blocks,
and word-block spacing at least 1.5 times larger than the line spacing.
5. Let people make words up to two times bigger and not have to move
their full-big window across to read it.
xkcd
• Current comic: http://xkcd.com• Transcript + explanation: http://www.explainxkcd.com
• Up Goer Five: http://xkcd.com/1133/• Transcript + explanation: http://www.explainxkcd.com/1133
• Simple Writer text editor: https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/• Up Goer Five text editor (third party): http://splasho.com/upgoer5/• Scientific American blog: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-
blog/science-in-ten-hundred-words-the-up-goer-five-challenge/• http://tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com/
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