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5 5  * **cognitive impairments** – easy to understand words and sentences need less cognition
6 6  * **visual impairments** – short and simple sentences convey meaning in a smaller visual field
7 7  * **motor impairments** – it's less tiring when you can understand what you read quickly
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10 -== ==
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12 12  == Guidelines ==
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26 26  ----
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28 28  == ==
29 29  
30 30  == {{id name="pe"/}}Plain English ==
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63 63  What is 'plain' for one person may not be for someone else.
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66 -== Usability evidence: plain English ==
65 +== Usability evidence for plain English ==
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68 68  [[Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable.>>url:https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/meaning-supplements.html]], Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, 2008.
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87 87  == ==
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89 89  == {{id name="ssl"/}}Simple sentences ==
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110 110  >"The fox, which was red, over the gate jumped." – harder to understand
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113 -== Usability evidence: simple sentences ==
113 +== Usability evidence for simple sentences ==
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115 115  Oxford Guide to plain English
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164 164  == ==
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166 166  == {{id name="st"/}}Specialist terms ==
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191 191  
192 192  >Example:
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194 ->"It is a Palladian style stone building, and contains a number of splendid paintings and much fine wood-carving." – original sentence (source [[yourdictionary.com>>url:http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/palladian]]).
195 +>"It is a Palladian style stone building, and contains a number of splendid paintings and much fine wood-carving." – original sentence.
195 195  >
196 196  >"It is a [[Palladian style>>url:http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/style-guide-palladianism/]] stone building, and contains a number of splendid paintings and much fine wood-carving." – with link to a definition.
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198 198  > "It is a Palladian style stone building and contains a number of splendid paintings and much fine wood-carving. Palladian style architecture features include columns, symmetry and decorative arches." – with explanatory definition.
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201 -== Usability evidence: specialist terms ==
201 +== Usability evidence for explaining specialist terms ==
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203 203  [['Writing Digital Copy for Domain Experts'>>url:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-domain-experts/]], Nielson Norman Group, 2017
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213 213  [['Technical Writing Need Not Be Abstruse—Use Plain Language for Maximum Impact'>>url:https://digital.gov/2015/10/23/technical-writing-need-not-be-abstruse-use-plain-language-for-maximum-impact/#]], Colleen Blessing, 2015
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215 215  [['The Facets of the General Public as Audience'>>url:https://www.dropbox.com/s/2u2cybl7c57u0tr/AudienceIssues.pdf?dl=0]] Cheryl Stephens and Mariah Stufflebeam, 2017
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219 +We generated the [[original sentence about a specialist architecture term>>url:http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/palladian]] from yourdictionary.com.
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221 221  Here's some sector specific guidance for [[medicine, money and law>>doc:.Medical.WebHome]].
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