About the Readability Guidelines
Readability Guidelines is a collaborative project to develop inclusive, universal content style guidance. We believe everyone can design inclusive content by default, if we have guidelines for making content easily readable (comprehensible) by all.
Sarah Richards at Content Design London started the project in 2018. During 24 weeks of Alpha and Beta we held live, global discussions in a Slack workspace.
Alpha
We asked:
- if an open community of content people want to contribute to a single style guide
- if we'd like to rely on evidence for the style guide elements – and if yes, what evidence would be most useful
- if a wiki model is sustainable
Read the final Alpha blog update.
Alpha ran from July to October, 2018.
Beta
From the Alpha discussions we identified 17 content style usability questions. We researched evidence to answer them in Beta. By the end we identified some top level findings. And some stye points for further testing.
Read the final Beta blog update.
Beta was October to December 2018.
Get involved
Explore and join us:
- read the Slack discussions: readabilityguidelines.slack.com, join: bit.ly/2D0OW1F
- watch the London Accessibility MeetUp Readability Guidelines talk'
- share usability studies and academic research evidence on this wiki
- follow #ReadabilityGuidelines on Twitter and LinkedIn
We have almost 500 members in our Slack community.
Contributing
This is a totally open project – dive in! You're welcome to edit, comment on or create wiki pages. The only rules are:
- be respectful
- make any comments in the spirit of positive open learning
- include usability evidence to support your edits or thoughts
Any comments or queries outside of this wiki, please get in touch on twitter @ContentDesignLN.