Legal Services Society public legal education and information resources accessibility initiative

The following document is a final report of the processes taken to conduct the review; our observations and findings; and our recommendations to improve readability, improve access to communication, and to raise awareness amongst LSS staff and others. [...] Sample checklists can be found in Appendix A. The Flesch Reading Ease Test In addition to the checklist evaluation, the Flesch Reading Ease Test (FRET) was applied to one sample of text in all nine publications and six web pages in order to provide a rough estimate of the difficulty of the material. [...] The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the text. [...] They They often don’t know how to skim a piece look at the structure of the text and the of text for specific information. [...] They connect the meaning of one They have trouble connecting the ideas in sentence with the meaning of other one sentence to the ideas in other sentences in the text.