Readability

=Readability and Visual Literacy =

Readability means that our document is created appropriate for our audience.
Even if you follow all the other guidelines for documents if your document is not readable by your audience then it is not accessible.

[|Webaim information on Writing Clearly] (great additional resources too)  www.webaim.org/techniques/writing/

 [|Readability] – comprehensive tool to examine readability of any draft for any audience  www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/readingeffectivenesstool/

 [|Readability Juicy Studios] juicystudio.com/services/readability.php  If you don’t like the Literacy site on Readability you can use this one instead.

 [|Wikipedia Readability Definitions] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability

 [|Okapi:] Measuring Readability and developing reading probes for progress monitoring  www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php  Copy and paste any text into the space and analyze your text by grade level.  Another bonus you can create a reading probe within 30 seconds.  Link to a screencast video on using Okapi

 [|Kathy Schrock Use of Fry]: school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Flesch Kincaid Readability] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test Quick

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Tests Document Readability] & Improve it www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Text Compactor:] www.textcompactor.com/ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Free online autosummarization tool

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">ELL & Cultural Diversity
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">[|NCTE ELL] and resources: www.ncte.org/ell <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;"> [|NWREL Resources ELL] www.nwrel.org/learns/resources/ell/index.html <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;"> [|Cultural Diversity and Academic Achievement] www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educators/leadrshp/le0bow.htm <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;"> [|CLAS] Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services clas.uiuc.edu