What we do
“ It has been really good working with you. Our project could not have been given a better boost than to have really well designed and accessible information. Many thanks to you and the team of people at Working with Words. ”
London Sports Forum
- Working with Words makes information easy for people with learning difficulties and people with low literacy.
- We train people with learning difficulties in work and life skills.
More information
Making information accessible
- Do you have information that you would like to reach a wider audience?
- Would you like people with learning difficulties to know more about what you do?
- Would you like your information in to be fully accessible, in easy read format, or as an mp3, CD, or web site?
Making the text accessible
Customers may have a booklet, leaflet or another document that they want to reach more people - particularly people with learning difficulties.
Our job is to make this document easier by:
- Editing out the parts of a document that are to hard to understand or which make it too long.
- Replacing jargon like facilitate, consult, or relationship with words like help, ask, or friend.
- enlarging the text and add headings and using colour.
Images
We will then add images to help make the meaning clearer. We might add a phone next to the telephone number or use a photograph of a particular person - like the head of a service or an advocate, for example.- We use the excellent Photosymbols 3 images as well as our our licensed photo object collection. We take our own pictures. We also edit images in PhotoShop.
- We can provide the document as a print ready Adobe InDesign document, a PDF for high resolution printing or an optimised file for email or the Internet.
Audio CD and MP3
- Often we will use the easy text to make an audio CD or mp3 file using clear voices, music and sound effects. These can be used with the booklet/leaflet or on their own.
- The audio can also be used to make a web site more accessible to people who find reading difficult.
- We use Steinberg professional software to record, edit and mix audio.
Accessible web sites
- Working with Words also design accessible web sites with customers
- We go through the same process to make the text accessible and add images
- We validate all of our xhtml and style sheets to check that there are no errors.
- We also add audio or your video to increase the accessibility of the site.
