Accessible Writing Links

All the tech­nol­ogy in the world won’t mat­ter if your web con­tent is hard to read. This can be a par­tic­u­lar prob­lem for any­one who uses “insider” talk, like research insti­tutes, col­leges, and non­prof­its. This isn’t a com­plete list, but I recently found two sites that might help.

Craw­ford Killian’s “Writ­ing for the Web” blog — Dis­cus­sion and resources from some­one who stays informed.

The Poyn­ter online-writing list­serv — Low-traffic list for the web-writing com­mu­nity. A cou­ple of peo­ple post writ­ing sem­i­nar announcements.

Readability.info — Ana­lyzes web text for read­ing level, like the func­tion on Microsoft Word. The site won’t write good web con­tent for you, but it might be a use­ful tool.

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Oh, a note– I’m ICI’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions spe­cial­ist, so I spent a lot of time edit­ing mate­r­ial for the web.