What is Plain Language?
Plain Language is taking hard to understand words out of sentences and replacing them with easy to read and understand words. Related pictures are then added to the document.
What does Plain Language look like?
Here is an example.
Before Translation:
It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life...
After Translation:
It helps people to learn it is good to have people with disabilities involved in everything in our community.
Who can benefit from Plain Language?
Anyone can benefit from Plain Language.
People with low literacy levels, new comers to Canada, senior citizens, people with vision problems, people with brain injuries, people with disabilities and people who are just too busy to take the time to read lots of information.
