Measuring text readability in EPiServer
Increase your web sites accessibility by measuring text readability.
When working with a web sites accessibility content is very often overlooked. Even if your web site fullfills all W3C recommendations it will still be inaccessible if your content is difficult to understand.
With this in mind I have made a tool that can help you to measure your texts readability. The plugin uses a technique called LIX which is appliable on Swedish and Danish texts only. A readability index score is not an exact science but can be used to make sense of how easy or difficult a text is to read.
To test the tool just download Lixr.epimodule and use EPiServer Deployment Center to install the module from a compressed file. When the installation is done navigate to a page with an XHTML editor, select some text and use the context menu with the option "Läsbarhetsindex...". A longer text provides a more accurate measurement.
This is how the results look like:
That's about it, feel free to drop a comment.
Really interesting work! I am quite passionate about starting to make tools that actually work with the contents in a content management system - and this is quite inspiring. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Allan!
I'm glad you liked my idea. My plan is to extend this tool with support for other languages then Swedish and Danish.