This week is New Zealand's unofficial plain language week. On Thursday we'll celebrate the winners of the Writemark Plain English Awards, 2014. Top prize is for promoting clear communication throughout an entire organisation. That's not an easy job. Elsewhere, gobbledygook from government agencies continues to gush. The wells of snake oil never run dry.
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Posts tagged "WCAG 2.0"
Web accessibility: deadline for self-assessment January 2015
Accessibility deadlines coming up soon! They apply to all Public Service departments and Non-Public Service departments in the NZ State Services.
DIA expects each department to assess the accessibility of all its websites and intranets by January 2015.
Whew! How are you doing? Are you on track?
Readability tests: a tactful way to help bad writers
Raising the topic of readability can be a delicate business. Is your boss out of touch with customers? Is a distinguished expert sending unreadable articles to a newsletter you edit? Is a colleague converting your plain English to gobbledegook?
Long text alternative: why describe a graph?
Hi Rachel Just working my way through the basic writing for the web - alt text for images. I quite strongly disagree with your contending that the alt text / or long description should contain a description of the graph...
WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines for content writers in 10 easy lessons
Most knowledge workers are likely to write content for web sites or intranets from time to time. Subject experts in every field publish directly online. And all that content has to be accessible, for so many reasons. Intranet content must...