Accessible Writing – How Much Do I Need to Start?

(This event starts at 10:00am CEST. See the World Clock Meeting Planner to check your local time.)

We all know that there's no such thing as easy writing or easy translating. Additionally, we create content for sighted users and don’t think about accessibility at all. Is it difficult to change that? 

Let’s start our workshop with examples of content created for:
Screen readers. 

1. Daily challenges users can have, for example:
2. ADHD
3. Short-term and long-term memory problems
4. Dyslexia
5. Processing speed
6. Depression
7. After-covid fog brain
8. Neurodivergence 

Let’s continue with a discussion about popular writing standards, for example:

1. Clear writing
2. Plain English
3. IBM's Easy English
4. ASD Simplified Technical English
5. Caterpillar Technical English

Let’s finish with some tips and tricks on how to: 

1. Start detecting inaccessible content
2. Create and reshape content
3. Cooperate with other departments in the company

Takeaways

We will: 

1. Share our experience and show how we use language to help our users work and enjoy the tools
2. Ask you to write and rewrite a short copy
3. Show some tools to use when writing

Audience

1. Tech writers
2. UX writers
3. PMs
4. Localization professionals
5. Translators
6. Content creators
7. Anyone interested 😊
    

Host organization: memoQ Translation Technologies