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1 -Simple sentences
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1 -Plain English.WebHome
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2 +This helps:
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8 -Audience labels: using I, you, we, they
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4 +* **people in a hurry** – simply written content is easier to scan and absorb instantly
5 +* **cognitive impairments** – easy to understand words and sentences need less cognition
6 +* **visual impairments** – short and simple sentences convey meaning in a smaller visual field
7 +* **motor impairments** – it's less tiring when you can understand what you read quickly
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13 -== [[Plain English, specialist terms >>doc:Plain English.Plain English, simple sentences.WebHome]] ==
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10 +== Guidelines ==
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23 -Law, medicine and money
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31 31  [[Simple sentences>>||anchor="ssl"]]
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33 33  [[Specialist terms>>||anchor="st"]]
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35 -[[Law, medicine, money>>doc:Plain English.Medical.WebHome]]
18 +[[Medicine, money and law>>doc:.Medical.WebHome]]
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45 45  == {{id name="pe"/}}Plain English ==
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78 78  What is 'plain' for one person may not be for someone else.
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81 -== Usability evidence: plain English ==
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83 83  [[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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104 104  == {{id name="ssl"/}}Simple sentences ==
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125 125  >"The fox, which was red, over the gate jumped." – harder to understand
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128 -== Usability evidence: simple sentences ==
113 +== Usability evidence for simple sentences ==
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130 130  Oxford Guide to plain English
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181 181  == {{id name="st"/}}Specialist terms ==
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207 207  >Example:
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209 ->"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.
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211 211  >"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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213 213  > "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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216 -== Usability evidence: specialist terms ==
201 +== Usability evidence for explaining specialist terms ==
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218 218  [['Writing Digital Copy for Domain Experts'>>url:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-domain-experts/]], Nielson Norman Group, 2017
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228 228  [['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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230 230  [['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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236 -Here's some sector specific guidance for [[medicine, money and law>>doc:Plain English.Medical.WebHome]].
219 +We generated the [[original sentence about a specialist architecture term>>url:http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/palladian]] from yourdictionary.com.
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223 +Here's some sector specific guidance for [[medicine, money and law>>doc:.Medical.WebHome]].
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239 -And here's our list of jargon [[words to avoid>>doc:Plain English.Words to avoid.WebHome]]!
226 +And here's our list of jargon [[words to avoid>>doc:.Words to avoid.WebHome]]!