Plain Language, Easy Language and accessibility resources.

Use field-ready articles, guidelines, checklists, and evidence to plan language quality, CMS delivery, security review, procurement, and measurable operations.

Turn a good idea into a working language service

Clear communication gets easier when the whole team can see what good looks like. This library gives editors, product teams, developers, procurement leads, and decision-makers practical material they can use together. Start with the question in front of you, then open the guide that helps you make the next decision with confidence.

You will find workflows for choosing Plain Language or Easy Language, connecting Simple8 to a CMS or API, reviewing security, estimating volume, and measuring whether people can complete a task. The guidance is designed for real projects. It helps you move from an early test to a controlled service without turning every conversation into a specialist workshop.

Each resource is written to be shared. Use a checklist in a planning session, send a practical article to a colleague, or bring the evidence into a procurement review. You do not need to read the library from start to finish. Pick the resource that removes today’s blocker and come back when the next question appears.

Find the right resource in three steps

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    Choose the topic that matches the decision you need to make now.

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    Filter by audience so the guidance fits the people doing the work.

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    Open one guide, use its checklist, and turn the result into your next action.

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Language quality

Plain Language vs. Easy Language: A Direct Comparison

Discover how Plain Language and Easy-to-Read Language differ in terms of word choice, sentence structure, scope of information, target audience, and design.

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Language quality

Plain Language: How to Integrate It into Your Website

Learn how to integrate Plain Language into your website so complex content becomes clearer, more accessible, and easier for people to use.

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Language quality

Translating into Easy Language Without Losing Meaning

Discover how translating into Easy Language preserves meaning, tone, and the ability to act across language barriers. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Business and delivery

Accessible Websites: Make Your Online Content Work for More People

Discover how clear content, accessible design, and ease of use enable more people to use your website independently. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Business and delivery

Accessible Websites: Applicable Rules and Practical Essentials

Understand the key rules for accessible websites and learn how to create a reliable digital service based on them. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Language quality

Standard, Plain, or Easy Language: How to Choose

Learn how to select the appropriate form of language based on the target audience, the task at hand, and the potential consequences of a misunderstanding.

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Language quality

Human Review: How to Make Accessible Content Truly Clear

Find out why human feedback identifies unclear meanings, misleading simplifications, and inappropriate tone. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Language quality

Target Audience Testing: Learn from Real Reading Situations

Learn how to involve the right people, facilitate clear tests, and translate observations into better content. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Language quality

Clear Terminology and Useful Glossaries for Understandable Content

Learn how consistent terms and well-explained words make your content easier to understand and improve multilingual publications.

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Language quality

Do People Understand Your Content? How to Find Out

Tasks, search behavior, and follow-up questions reveal more reliably than good readability whether people truly understand revised content.

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CMS and API

API Integration Quickstart: From Content to Secure Output

Learn how web and content teams can reliably send content via an API, review it, and feed it back into their website. Includes practical implementation tips.

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CMS and API

WordPress: Publish and Maintain Accessible Language Versions

This gives Plain Language and Easy Language in WordPress a prominent, accessible place, a clear link to the original, and reliable maintenance.

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CMS and API

TYPO3: Publish and Maintain Accessible Language Versions

Learn how editorial teams and IT staff link, verify, publish, and reliably maintain accessible pages in TYPO3 when changes occur.

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CMS and API

TYPO3 Accessibility: Tips for an Inclusive Website

Learn how TYPO3 supports accessible websites through clear structure, usable components, and reliable editorial workflows.

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CMS and API

Drupal: Publish and Maintain Accessible Language Versions

Discover how Drupal supports editorial teams in reliably providing clear content across multiple languages and language variants.

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CMS and API

Make language versions easy to find with a website widget

Learn how a well-designed widget makes accessible language versions visible without hiding content or creating new barriers.

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CMS and API

Webhooks vs. Batch Processing: Choosing the Right Content Flow

Find out when changes are transmitted immediately via webhook and when scheduled batch runs are more reliable for day-to-day editorial workflows.

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Security and procurement

AI Hosting in Germany: What the Location Really Guarantees

Find out which data protection and security issues are addressed by German hosting and what additional documentation remains necessary.

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Security and procurement

Data Processing Agreements: What Clients Should Check

Learn which points a data processing agreement should clearly address and what they mean for the collaboration with a service provider.

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Security and procurement

Data Retention, Caching, Backups, and Deletion Explained

Find out where data resides after use, how long it is needed, and how to identify reliable information regarding caching, backups, and deletion.

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Security and procurement

External AI Language Providers: What to Check Before Deployment

Learn how to assess data flows, contracts, language quality, change processes, and exit plans for external AI language service providers.

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Security and procurement

SLAs and Incidents: Reliable Commitments for Clear Content

Discover which service commitments truly help editorial teams and how providers should communicate during outages, errors, and security incidents.

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Business and delivery

Procure Plain Language, Easy Language and accessibility with confidence.

Learn how to tender and select a language service that suits your readers, content, and editorial workflows. Includes practical implementation tips.

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Business and delivery

AI Language Services Pricing Calculator: Monthly and Annual Costs

Calculate the monthly and annual cost of an AI language service based on character count, content volume, overages, and fixed fees.

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Business and delivery

The Business Case for Understandable Content

Learn how to combine concrete understanding problems, realistic benefits and verifiable assumptions to make a credible investment decision.

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Business and delivery

Delivering Understandable Content as an Agency Project

Find out how agencies and customers can develop understandable content together, publish it cleanly and maintain it themselves over the long term.

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Business and delivery

How to Write a Credible Case Study About Clear Content

Clearly demonstrate the nature of the initial misunderstanding, what changed, and the impact achieved - without making exaggerated promises.

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