How Do I Ensure My Letters and Emails are Inclusive and Accessible?
A guide to making your writing open to all and easy to follow.
Designing for people with limited English
People who depend on Home Office services, such as visas, passports and asylum, are often not fluent in English.
This means important information in application forms, guidance pages and other tasks may be difficult to understand.
We have identified 10 evidence-based principles to follow when designing content for people with limited English:
People who depend on Home Office services, such as visas, passports and asylum, are often not fluent in English.
This means important information in application forms, guidance pages and other tasks may be difficult to understand.
We have identified 10 evidence-based principles to follow when designing content for people with limited English:
Make your text and documents accessible - Help - University of Kent
From using heading styles and QR codes to writing meaningful link text, this is a super page of guidance on the University of Kent's website. This is also a good time to tell you that I once wrote about how to write good hyperlinks too.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
Plain English is all about using clear language to make content easier to read and understand for everyone. But it's just one part of making accessible websites.
If you work in content and want to get a better grip on web accessibility essentials, I strongly recommend this introduction from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It's very much one for your bookmarks.
Mailchimp on writing for accessibility
Writing clearly is just one part of making sure web pages are accessible to as many people as possible. Mailchimp's internal guides are always a handy reference tool and this one on accessible content is a good place to start.
How to use readable, accessible emojis
A collaboratively developed, universal content style guide, based on usability evidence. Created by Content Design London.
What’s the alternative? How to write good alt text
Design102 explains why and how you should be writing good alt text. Alt text helps users to access and consume content by describing in words elements that might otherwise rely solely on visuals.
Accounts Acing Alt Text on Social Media
Adding alt text to an image is a way of describing its content and meaning in an alternative format. Enjoy these examples from Holly Tuke, who has gathered a collection of organisations and individuals doing alt text well on social media.