RE: Understandable content techneques

Lisa, thanks for these references.
 
If anyone on the list is aware of resources about writing understandable
content in languages other than English-- especially non-European
languages-- I would appreciate references, links, etc.  I'm thinking of
such things as:
 
in-house style guides;
manuals of style and usage;
industry and government "plain language" initiatives;
measures of readability for languages other than English
conventions regarding use of passive voice (in languages that have
passive voice)
Measures of sentence length
Controlled vocabularies
 
etc.
 
Thanks very much.
John
 
 

"Good design is accessible design." 
John Slatin, Ph.D.
Director, Accessibility Institute
University of Texas at Austin
FAC 248C
1 University Station G9600
Austin, TX 78712
ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524
email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu
web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/
<http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/> 


 

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	Subject: Understandable content techneques
	
	
	 
	A good paper by Peter Ranger
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/seven/disability_and_the_web.html
<http://www.techdis.ac.uk/seven/disability_and_the_web.html>  on writing
for Disabilities on the web
	 
	
	I also found a initial list of resources that he compiled
http://www.learningdifferently.com/develop/papers.html
<http://www.learningdifferently.com/develop/papers.html> 
	 
	Keep well and all the best,
	 
	Lisa
	 
	Lisa Seeman
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