Clear Language Subgroup

This is the landing page for the Clear Language subgroup.

Comments on WCAG3 FPWD

• Github issues assigned to Clear Words - the Github comments from WCAG3 First Public Working Draft (FPWD) filtered to those assigned to the Clear Words subgroup.
• Google drive folder for storing proposals

Drafts

Current

• Clear Words How-to
• Method: Simple Tense
• Method: Help Users Understand
• Method: Clear Words
• Use Clear and Understandable Language
• Clear Language Functional Outcomes - May & June 2020
• Guideline - March 2020
• How-to - March 2020
• Method - March 2020

Archive

• Silver Draft of Clear Language - draftt in the Editor's Draft of Feb - April 2020.
• Clear Words Scope Exploration
• Clear Words Tests & Methods
• Clear Words - Original proposal from COGA

Resources

• Making content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities - W3C Editor's Draft 16 July 2020
• W3C Clear Words Resources - from John Rochford
• Plain language around the world
• Plain Language Guidelines for Simplifying App Content - from John Rochford
• Template for Content Creation Process for Migrating WCAG SC (component-based) - This is the template we are following
• COGA User Research
• COGA Issues Paper
• Cognitive Functions from COGA TF and ETSI - this doc belongs to the COGA TF where they are working on how the breadth of disabilities grouped under COGA can be more granular
• Personalization Overview
• Personalization Semantics Content Module 1.0
• NYC Education Department - Making Accessible and Inclusive Content
• How to Write User-Friendly Content - Usability.gov

Next Steps

• We need to start by editing the tags for information architecture for Clear Written Content and Clear Written Structure.
• We are breaking Clear Language into three guidelines:
  1. Clear Written Content
  2. Clear Written Structure
  3. Clear Instructions (which will be merged with Headings and Labels and Labels and Instructions)
• Investigate more international clear language resources including:
  • the UN Sustainable Development Justice project.
  • There is also an ISO group working on plain language. Here is a comment on an announcement.
  • John Kirkwood recommended the Plain Language Network.

Participants

• Jan McSorley
• Angela Hooker
• Jeanne Spellman
• John Rochford
• John Kirkwood

Former Participants

• Rachael Montgomery Bradley
• Cyborg