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caz Posts: 3742 Joined: 10/10/2001 From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK Status: offline	Readability - 3/26/2008 11:47:33 This is not the same thing as legibility where font choice and layout styling are most important, but the whole thing. As well as being legible is the content understandable by it's intended audience? How well do they - the users read, what kind of attention span do they have...these things are usually unknowns in web design, as well as in print; so over the years researchers have come up with a variety of tests that try to determine some of these unknowns. They are all fairly well known such as the FOG, SMOG and Gunning indexes as well as the Closure tests, but they take a lot of hard work counting sentence, word length etc. and calculating the results. The drudgery has been taken out of this process by automation and you can access this service readily from the Web Accessibility Toolbar which has been upgraded to Version 2 in beta for IE7 and Vista. http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php#readingresults Looking at the table of typical Fog index scores and their interpretation where the lowest scores equate with reading the Bible, TV Guides and Mark Twain - we used to have the tabloids like the Sun and the Sport here ; I was struck by the definition of the reading matter aimed at the highest level... Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them. Over 30 The government is covering something up Nice to see a bit of humour in these dry subjects. _____________________________ I remember when it took less than 4hrs to fly across the Atlantic.


mar0364 Posts: 3297 Joined: 4/5/2002 From: Florida, US Status: offline	RE: Readability - 3/26/2008 13:08:06 I do a gov site and average about 14. I need to see if I can get that up to 25. Something to aspire. _____________________________ Easy Web “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” (in reply to caz)


caz Posts: 3742 Joined: 10/10/2001 From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK Status: offline	RE: Readability - 3/26/2008 14:45:19 You really are slacking there...although the one I do for a national organisation seems to get around 13. But then they are young _____________________________ I remember when it took less than 4hrs to fly across the Atlantic. (in reply to mar0364)