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Readability and WCAG 2.0

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0, draft version) provides information about how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. WCAG 2.0 addresses readability through Guideline 3.1 - "Make text content readable and understandable." Results from this readability tool can help determine if your content has met the success criterion related to readability.

Success Criterion 3.1.5

When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level, supplemental content is available that does not require reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level.

Recommended Techniques

  1. Provide a text summary that requires reading ability less advanced than the upper secondary education level
  2. Provide visual illustrations of complex ideas, events, and processes
  3. Provide a spoken version of the text
  4. Make the text easier to read
  5. Provide sign language versions of information, ideas, and processes that must be understood in order to use the content

For additional information, see Understanding WCAG 2.0 Opens a new window.