{"id":31707,"date":"2026-06-23T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31707"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:47:22","slug":"readability-for-accessible-writing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/readability-for-accessible-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Readability for Accessible Writing"},"template":"","news_categories":[91,23,65],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-31707","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-accessibility","news_categories-admin-note","news_categories-inside-ahs"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"Weekly Accessibility Tips","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p><strong>Dear Colleagues,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-block-id=\"6f28587d-e6f3-4005-8f17-bb45458dfaa3\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Learn how to make your writing easier to read with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/khsy72wujtxhlhva3uwdk5fx9ktxx8ay\">Readability Tip Sheet<\/a>. <\/strong>These tips improve reading for both visual readers and screen reader users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This tip sheet includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Font size, style, and special characters<\/li>\n<li>Using text emphasis (Bold, all caps, underlining, italics, and strike-through)<\/li>\n<li>Creating the layout:\n<ul>\n<li>Headings, text alignment, background, lists, text resizing<\/li>\n<li>Line, word, character, and paragraph spacing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Using color<\/li>\n<li>Readability resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Use this tip sheet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/026x2c5l8s0mts2mx2zudc7cp1k5qo9p\"><strong>Plain Language Tip Sheet<\/strong><\/a> to make your content easier to understand.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"Ryan Lemke","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31711,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31707\/revisions\/31711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=31707"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=31707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}