DubBot software checks for text Readability - how easy the written content is to read and comprehend.
In this Article
Why Readability is Important
It makes a good impression - A website that is easy to understand and navigate will keep a visitor interested.
It gets your message across - Make sure visitors leave the website with the information that they were intended to receive.
It keeps their attention - Visitors get distracted easily - anything that takes more than a second to understand is too long and they will move on - don’t give the competition a leg up!
It’s good for SEO - As search algorithms improve on their capabilities, readability is starting to have more of an effect on the rankings.
What to Consider
Is it easy to understand?
Is it possible that certain parts of the website’s content are hard to understand and require a visitor to reread several times before comprehending?
Legibility
Is the font type one where it is easy to distinguish the letters? (For example, some handwritten typed fonts are hard to read)
Are the letters spaced out enough so they are clear?
Is it easy to mistake emphatic text for a link?
Note: Make sure the styles used for emphasis are not the same styles used to indicate the presence of a link.
Any cognitive disabilities audience members may have
Oftentimes this gets overlooked in regards to the types of disabilities that need accommodation on the web.
Consider that certain phrases or sentences can be harder to understand for those with cognitive disabilities.
The age and education level of the audience
For AAA compliance, if the text is not at a lower secondary education level (somewhere between grades 5-8), then supplemental content (such as descriptions) or an alternate version of the text will be necessary*
The readability tests used in DubBot (and listed below) help you verify that your text is at the appropriate level.
Learn more about the Readability Scores used in DubBot and how to interpret them.
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More Frequently Asked Questions
If you have questions, please contact our DubBot Support team via email at help@dubbot.com or via the blue chat bubble in the lower right corner of your screen. We are here to help!