A news article from the ABC from July this year raises an important issue for people with print disabilities. ‘Electricity bills unreadable for thousands of Australians amid a cost-of-living crisis’ by Nas Campanella and Emily Laurence. 27 July 2023. The ABC article points out that many utilities companies send out…

Last week there was a great story in The Conversation about the impact of using jargon and not knowing what many words really mean. People with intellectual disability described the use of use of words they did not understand when hearing about their genetic diagnosis. Words are all long and…

This coming Tuesday, 24 October, 2023 is ‘Drop the Jargon Day.’ How many words do you hear or read which you may not be sure of the meaning? …

A new article from The Conversation is a worthwhile read as it raises the need to better advocate for inclusion for people with communication disability. What happens if you need another way to communicate, or you are part of the 1 in 4 people (2023) who are digitally excluded? You…

Paying bills, banking, insurance, managing your household utilities, even buying groceries — so many things we used to do in person with help from a friendly face behind the counter, we’re now expected to do for ourselves online. That opens up a whole new accessibility barrier: digital literacy. While literacy…

What do Easy English content writers and emergency workers have in common? More than you think. Has it got something to do with ensuring access to information for people with low literacy in an emergency? Yes! Cath and I attended the Emergency Management Conference in Melbourne in July this year…

See how Australian high school students are achieving is a PISA cake — but the results are concerning. PISA is the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, designed to get a big picture of what young people across the world know and do. Every year, hundreds of thousands of 15-year-old…

We use Picto Selector www.pictoselector.eu/ as one of a range of image sets when creating Easy English documents. It is a free download with 8 image sets incorporated into it. Currently there are over 48,000 images available. It is used more widely in other countries, than Australia. Many of the…

It’s a familiar question by now for anyone who writes for a living, whether you’re a novelist, journalist, technical writer, or even an Easy English specialist. Aren’t you worried AI will take your job? Well, not yet. And here’s why. Artificial Intelligence can read a piece of text, rewrite it…