Towards Techniques for Easy-to-Read Web Content

Requirements for Easy-to-Read Web content can be derived from various sources. The requirements cover linguistic properties as well as aspects of presentation and interaction. This paper compares different approaches to check that the Web content is understandable. A major challenge is that many gui...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 27; pp. 343 - 349
Main Authors Nietzio, Annika, Naber, Daniel, Bühler, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2014
Subjects
author support tool
Easy-to-Read
grammar checking
people with learning difficulties
readability
Web accessibility
Web accessibility
author support tool
readability
grammar checking
people with learning difficulties
Easy-to-Read
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ISSN1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI10.1016/j.procs.2014.02.038

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Summary:Requirements for Easy-to-Read Web content can be derived from various sources. The requirements cover linguistic properties as well as aspects of presentation and interaction. This paper compares different approaches to check that the Web content is understandable. A major challenge is that many guidelines are language-dependent. We describe a method to extend the coverage of an existing author support tool across multiple languages and show how this can be a first step towards common Techniques for Easy-to-Read Web content.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2014.02.038