Clear Language Subgroup
From Silver
This is the landing page for the Clear Language subgroup.
Contents
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:
- Clear Written Content
- Clear Written Structure
- 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