Page has a high reading age Usability Guideline

Description

This page has a higher than average reading age, 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. Gunning Fog reading age is the number of years of schooling required to understand the page. For comparison,

Reading ages of common publications
Readable By (% of population)	Reading Age	Example
84%	7	Readers Digest
57%	12	New York Times
15%	20	Harvard Law Review

Applicable standards

Readability Guidelines

Change history

3.5 Dec 2009 Don’t fire for non-English pages - Gunning Fog algorithm specific to English.
2.0 Dec 2007 Added.

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

Rule ID: UseGunningFog