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#Quick Test: Check Comprehension Level#

Cognitive disabilities affect more than 6% of the population. People with cognitive disabilites often struggle with reading text on the internet. When writing content, it is important to identify your target audience and write accordingly. If you don't know who your target audience is, target your content a reader between the ages of 12 and 15 years old.

Here are some tools to test your content:

  1. Read-able.com
  2. Microsoft Office

If your content content isn't hitting the target audience, take some time and rewrite it.

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I like the grade level too, but I saw Laura Kalberg tweeting that an a11y book she is reading was very US centric. I realized the age target was not necessarily the same grade/school year target worldwide. Using just age helps to internationalize the recommendation.

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