Creating Clarity from Complexity

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

1 Hour

Audience

CSCB Employees

Description

In this learning session, we will cover the following:

• The importance of aiming for a grade 6 to 8 reading level for public text (or including a plain language summary).
• Writing directly to your reader.
• Using the active voice – put the subject first in a sentence.
• Using familiar words and shorter paragraphs.
• Avoiding technical terms when possible.
• Including the bottom-line up front.
• Using lists to note important points separate from the text.
• Using acronyms carefully.
• Testing your writing on others.

Workshop 1 is a recommended pre-requisite for this session. Workshop 1 is critical to staff understanding accessibility, and how their everyday actions affect people with different accommodation needs in a positive, or negative, way.

Please put a placeholder in your calendar. You will be sent a calendar invitation 1 week before the event.

** Accessibility notes:

All trainings are divided into 2 parts: pre-recorded (that we will watch as a group), and interactive.

We have sign language interpretation for the pre-recorded part, but not for the interactive session after. Please connect with the Accessibility Service Centre if you wish to request sign language services for break-out rooms.