Page has a high reading age Usability Guideline

Description

This page is harder to read than the Reading age setting allows.

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. The Gunning Fog Index is the number of years of schooling required to understand the page. For comparison,

Readability of common publications

Readable By (% of population)	Years of schooling	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