Page has a low Flesch Reading Ease Score Usability Guideline

Description

This page has a low Flesch Reading Ease Score, so about 50% of the population finds it hard to read.

Help

This page is difficult to read for users with poor literacy or reading disorders like dyslexia. For improved readability use simpler words and shorter sentences. Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES) scale is from 0 (unreadable) to 121 (easy). For comparison,

Reading ages of common publications
Readable By
(% of population)
FRESExample
84%65Readers Digest
57%40New York Times
15%32Harvard Law Review

Applicable standards

Change history

  • 3.5 Dec 2009 Don’t fire for non-English pages - FRES algorithm specific to English.
  • 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: UseFRES