Resources mentioned in our webinar
- Video of the webinar is above - click to play
- Download a PDF of the slides from the webinar
- Readability Formulas (test for readability - aim for 7th / 8th grade)
Articles and background:
- Attention is the new currency (Huffington Post)
- Why you won’t finish this article(Slate)
- More about the nut graf, or nutshell paragraph(Wikipedia)
- 59% of people share posts without reading
- Bogus article about Facebook sharing (shared 146,000 times)
- Great article from Oxford Dictionaries with tips for online writing
- Tips on how to write articles from Medium
Questions that came up:
- Research on font readability - this is all over the board, but there's an interesting article here that talks about the general approach. Again, I wouldn't use more than two on your web page content.
- Options for testing for screen readers - I found a somewhat older article that references multiple options for both PC and Mac - you can check it out here (but no promises!)
Be sure to join upcoming webinars for more tips!
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