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I translate texts.

Into Plain Language or Easy Read. So more people can read and understand your texts.

Online copy

Websites

Print media

Why Do We Need Easy Read?

Accessibility is becoming increasingly important in our digital everyday lives: bus tickets are paid for via apps, and questions are answered online. This brings many advantages, but we should not forget those who do not have easy access to language. Digital services are increasingly becoming unavoidable and urgently need to be made more accessible — including through barrier-free texts written in Plain Language and Easy Read.

98 percent

of websites are not accessible.
 

(WebAIM Study 2018)

6.8 million

of German-speaking adults have low literacy skills.
 

(Ages 16–64, LEO Study 2018)

Keine

out of 1,900 tested websites meet accessibility standards.
 

(German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 2020/21)

Was ist Einfache und Leichte Sprache?

Plain Language and Easy Read help people with disabilities or communication barriers better understand written content. Texts are reduced to their essential information, technical terms are replaced, subordinate clauses are avoided, sentences are shortened, and statements are simplified, summarized, or further explained. The two terms describe different levels of simplification, although the boundaries between them are often fluid.

Plain Language

What?

  • Tool for accessibility
     

  • Can serve as transitional texts
     

  • Can include text required in specific situations

 

For whom or when?
 

  • Simplified communication for a wide range of audiences, for example: non-native speakers or people with reading and learning difficulties
     

  • People with temporarily limited ability to process information
    (due to traumatic events or injuries)
     

  • Communication of complex or technical topics
     

How?

  • Simplified written German
     

  • Adapted to the target audience
     

  • No fixed rules

Leichte Sprache

What?

  • A tool for accessibility
     

  • Not intended as transitional texts
     

For whom?

  • People with cognitive disabilities
     

  • People with mental health conditions
     

  • People with learning disabilities
     

  • People with intellectual disabilities
     

How?

  • Very simple written German
     

  • Reduced to core information
     

  • Extensive set of rules

    • Tool for accessibility
       

    • Can serve as transitional texts
       

    • Can include text required in specific situations

    • Simplified communication for a wide range of audiences, for example:
       

      • Non-native speakers
         

      • People with reading or learning difficulties
         

    • People with temporarily limited ability to process information
      (due to traumatic events or injuries)
       

    • Communication of complex topics

    • Simplified written German

    • Adapted to the target audience

    • No fixed rules

Plain Language

    • Tool for accessibility
       

    • Not intended as transitional texts

    • People with cognitive disabilities
       

    • People with mental health conditions
       

    • People with learning disabilities
       

    • People with intellectual disabilities

    • Very simple written German
       

    • Reduced to core information
       

    • Extensive set of rules

Easy Language

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