Re: [wbs] response to 'EOWG Weekly Survey – 18 Apr 2016'

Hi James,

On 21.4.2016 04:39, James Green via WBS Mailer wrote:
> I can tell this took a lot of work and there is valuable information
> included, but I am sad to say that it needs a lot of work.
>
> It does use shorter paragraphs with headings (which is good) but still
> needs visuals.  And more importantly, I think it misses the mark we
> discussed Friday.  I could see academics linking to this, but not your
> average interested party.  It needs simple, succinct language to motivate
> users to stick with it.
>
> Currently, this resource has a Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score of 15.2
> (well into college graduate level language) and an average grade level
> (among 5 different formulas) of 16.5.  I ran those tests against a few
> other WAI pages and never got anything below grade 14.  To me, this
> resource is definitely consistent with what we have, but I don't think it
> represents where we want to be when it comes to developing new resources
> going forward....

Thank you for these suggestions. I will try to further improve the text 
and writing level. It would be helpful if you have specific suggestions 
or examples of how to improve the language.

Also for visuals. A Venn diagram was suggested, though I'm not sure if 
that will actually make things easier or more difficult. Do you have 
other suggestions and ideas for visuals?

Thanks,
   Shadi

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Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
Activity Lead, WAI International Program Office
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2016 07:21:15 UTC