- From: Mike Brown <mike@signify.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:13:49 +1200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Alan> This news item describes a study of the readability and understandability Alan> of Diabetes web sites. Most require a reading age of 11 to 14 years while Alan> that of the general population in the UK is (amazingly) nine years. There Alan> doesn't seem to be any mention of web accessibility guidelines. This is not entirely meant tongue in cheek, but surely the answer is to increase the reading ability of the UK population! I should have thought that if you can present diabetes information online such that a 11-14 year old can understand it, then you've done a good job. Is the "reading age" of a site, assuming it can be measured, an accessibility issue? Is there a limit to how far information can be "simplified" before it loses its usefulness? Regards Mike Brown
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