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