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This week marks the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act—and what better way to celebrate than to make your writing more accessible? Our newest toolkit will help you write in Easy Read, an accessible format that uses images and easy-to-understand language. Creating resources in Easy Read helps make sure that all people with disabilities have the tools we need to understand and speak out about policy that affects our lives. This toolkit covers the intricacies of Easy Read writing and formatting. Are you struggling to translate a high reading level document into Easy Read, or an Easy Read document into Plain Language? Do you want to know how to pick Easy Read icons, or need a style guide to help with choosing fonts and spacing? Do you need information on how to collaborate with self-advocates to test and edit your work? We can help! Download our guide here. Easy Read has been used in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom for longer than it has been used in the United States. But by now, many organizations in the U.S. and internationally have done Easy Read work, including many self-advocacy organizations. At ASAN, we have learned a lot about making Easy Read resources over the last 5 years. We have worked closely with people with intellectual disabilities to make our Easy Read words and icons easier to understand. We hope that by sharing what we have learned, we can help more people and organizations release accessible resources in Easy Read and Plain Language. Creating resources in Easy Read and Plain Language is a crucial way to include people with intellectual and developmental disabilities—as well as English language learners, people with language processing disabilities, and others who benefit from accessible resources—in your work. Please check out our new guide, and share it with anyone who you think could benefit from knowing more about creating accessible resources. Together, let’s commemorate this ADA anniversary by making information accessible to everyone! Autistic Self Advocacy Network PO Box 66122
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