This spotlight is all about writing accessible copy. 

About this guest spotlight

To help with this episode, we asked Kayleen Holt, Instructional Designer Consultant at Scissortail Creative Services (soon to be Inclusive LXD) to give us an overview of the different things that can help ensure that people can understand and perceive written text. 

Watch the recording of the conversation:

Or read the transcript: Writing accessible copy transcript

Resources mentioned:

• Meryl Evans LinkedIn profile

• An article about the alt text NASA used for their telescope photos

• We rate dogs on Twitter

• Plain language tool

• Grammarly

• Hemmingway editor

• Well said labs

Discussion questions:

Get Involved: Come to the LCA Spotlight LinkedIn group and join the conversation.

• Do you have anything to add to the things discussed in the video?

• How do you ensure that topics about complex subject matters are still accessible to non-native speakers?

• Do you have a solution for making puns accessible in copy, not just alt text?

• Do you have any tips for checking whether your copy is accessible?

When you post in the community, use the hashtag #LCASpotlightAccessibleCopy