An Easy Read version of your website
The job: people who find your website hard to read can switch to an Easy Read version of your key pages, with short sentences and everyday words.
What it costs: a fixed written quote, agreed before any work starts.
The problem this solves
Most websites are written by people who know the subject, for people who read easily. That leaves out a lot of readers: people with intellectual disability, people with acquired brain injury, people who are still learning English, and people who are tired, stressed or reading on a phone.
If those readers are the people your service is for, the words on your website are a barrier between them and you. An Easy Read version takes that barrier down without changing the page everyone else sees.
What Easy Read is
- Short sentences, with one idea in each.
- Everyday words. Hard words are explained the first time they are used.
- The most important information first.
- Clear headings that say what each part is about.
- Pictures or icons that support the meaning, where they help.
Easy Read is not the same as plain language. Plain language makes a page clearer for every reader. Easy Read goes further for anyone who wants it, and it is usually shorter, because it keeps only what the reader must know and do.
What you get
Easy Read versions of the pages you choose
Start with the pages people most need: what you do, who can use your service, how to get started, what it costs and how to complain.
One switch on the page
Visitors turn Easy Read on and off themselves. Nobody has to ask for a special document or go to a separate part of the site.
The original stays
Your standard wording is still there for everyone else, and for anyone who wants the full detail.
A price in writing
The quote sets out which pages are included, what you will receive and support after delivery.
We built this for our own sites first. See aXread for how the switch between Standard and Easy Read looks to a reader.
Where it fits
An Easy Read version takes down the barrier in the words. Other barriers, such as forms that need a keyboard to work and videos that need captions, are found and fixed through a WCAG accessibility audit, which is the place to start if you want the whole picture of your site.
People are different, and Easy Read gives more people a way in. Keep your phone number and contact details on every page, so that people can still ask.
Why aXai
aXai is a disability-led AI, software and accessibility company. We build AI systems, software, and concepts and prototypes ready to scale, and we deliver them through AI-supported work: skilled people with disability in real, properly paid roles, working to clear quality standards, with AI removing the barriers and people keeping the accountability.
Every project runs on our own infrastructure, the Decision Bus and Project Layer, so each step is planned, signed off by a person and on the record. That is our operating advantage. Read how it works.
Questions
Which pages should we start with?
The pages a person needs in order to use your service: what you do, who it is for, how to start, what it costs, and how to give feedback or complain.
Do we have to rewrite our whole website?
No. Your existing pages stay as they are. You choose which pages get an Easy Read version.
What happens when we change a page?
The Easy Read version needs updating too. Ask us to include updates in your quote.
Can you do Easy Read documents and videos as well?
Yes. Easy Read versions of our videos are available on request, and documents can be quoted as separate work.
What does it cost?
It depends on how many pages you choose and how your website is built. You get a fixed written quote before any work starts.
Related pages
- WCAG accessibility auditsAn audit against WCAG 2.2 with a signed report that tells you what to fix first.
- Accessibility audit vs overlay widgetWhat an audit tells you, what an overlay widget does, and how to decide between them.
- Custom accessible tools and softwareAI tools and software designed around the people who will use them.
Tell us about your website
Tell us your web address and which pages matter most to your readers. We will reply by email with next steps and a fixed quote. Prefer to talk? Contact us.