- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 06:32:54 -0400
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Yep, Any reading measure you use with the guidelines - they will come out high on the reading scale. To the user, the first job is reading and understanding what is said, then determining what said applies to what the user is actually doing. Why not try SMOG on the new intruduction. I think you'll see that the introduction is becoming much more readable. Anne At 10:48 PM 6/1/01 -0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: >I found an interesting tool today [1]. It asks you to select 30 sentences >from your document (I chose WCAG 1.0) and count how many words with 3 >syllables or more are in those 30 sentences. Then it asks several other >questions, including several about presentation of the information. > >Based on my input to their form, WCAG 1.0 is about grade 16 and WCAG 2.0 is >about 13. Per their definitions, grades 10-15 are college. So, this >implies that someone needs beyond a college education to understand WCAG >1.0. and must be halfway through college to understand WCAG 2.0<grin/> > >This is based on the Simple Measure Of Gobbledegook (SMOG) readability >formula. > >--wendy > >http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/readingeffectiveness >tool/ > > >-- >wendy a chisholm >world wide web consortium >web accessibility initiative >seattle, wa usa >tel: +1 206.706.5263 >/-- > > Anne Pemberton apembert@erols.com http://www.erols.com/stevepem http://www.geocities.com/apembert45
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