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.
Language qualityPlain 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 qualityPlain 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 qualityTranslating into Easy Language Without Losing Meaning
Translate into Easy Language while preserving meaning, tone and the reader’s next steps. Plan terminology, review and publication across languages.
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Business and deliveryAccessible Websites: Make Your Online Content Work for More People
Make your website usable for more people with clear content, accessible navigation and design that supports independent reading and action.
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Business and deliveryAccessible Websites: Applicable Rules and Practical Essentials
Understand accessibility requirements for websites and turn them into practical checks for navigation, content, publishing and ongoing maintenance.
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Language qualityStandard, 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 qualityHuman Review: How to Make Accessible Content Truly Clear
Use human review to identify ambiguous meaning, misleading simplifications and inappropriate tone before publishing accessible content.
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Language qualityTarget Audience Testing: Learn from Real Reading Situations
Plan tests with target readers, observe real reading tasks and use what people say and do to improve your content and next steps.
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Language qualityClear 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 qualityDo 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 APIAPI Integration Quickstart: From Content to Secure Output
Send content through the API, review the returned language version and publish it safely on your website with a clear content-team workflow.
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CMS and APIWordPress: 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 APITYPO3: 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 APITYPO3 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 APIDrupal: 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 APIMake 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 APIWebhooks 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 procurementAI 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 procurementData 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 procurementData 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 procurementExternal 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 procurementSLAs 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 deliveryProcure Plain Language, Easy Language and accessibility with confidence.
Define your readers, language needs and editorial processes before comparing providers, quality checks, hosting and service commitments.
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Business and deliveryAI 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 deliveryThe 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 deliveryDelivering 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 deliveryHow 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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