SC 3.1.5 Reading Level

mean. Reading level is also a AAA success criterion 3.1.5. And this is one that is

pretty hard to hit because it's very much focused on the American like school system to test.

So the text of success criterion is when text requires reading ability more advanced

than the lower secondary education level after removal of proper names and titles, supplemental

content, or a version that does not require reading ability more advanced than the lower

secondary education level is available. So I think this is already hard to read.

So basically what they want you to use is relatively simple language, not going to

like things that you know you need a higher education level for so so to make it available

to people who have like lower reading abilities and i think that's actually a great idea and they

probably should do that in the success criterion too there are only a couple like a handful of

websites that meet this because it's AAA success criterion. And most provide a summary for the,

for the page. So on every page, you have like a little one paragraph text that summarizes what

the article is, or the article, the article is about. And, and then, you know, when you have

like a lower level of reading skills you can just read the summary and then you know if it is even

time to if it if it is a good investment to invest the time to read it or get help or you know

rewrite it um this will be super interesting with things like ai summarization uh which you know

because those are language models that might actually be something that they might be reasonably

good at. So, you know, you get like a long article and then you say like, hey, give me a summary on

this, like in, I don't know, 300 characters. And then you get like the summary of that text. And

that's pretty, pretty neat. One website that does that is Leni Feingold's website. She's a

human rights attorney from the United States. On every website, on every web page, she has this

on this page box that basically summarizes in easy to understand language what's going on

on the page. So in this case, this is an article about the law in the United States in July 2022.

the Department of Justice said it will write new regulations next year about making certain websites accessible to disabled people.

So you get this really simple, it's not like a lot of jargon in those texts.

I probably myself would add the DOJ, which is Department of Justice in the US, probably would put that into brackets here in the first mention.

But it's like, yeah, it makes sense that this is the same thing.

But that, you know, that's just like the minimum, the minimal changes that you can do to make something more or less accessible in those cases.

Thank you.