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10 Ways We Can Be More Inclusive and Accessible in Our Writing

šŸ’”We could be missing out on a whole lot of ā€˜readsā€™ā€¦

Trisha Dunbar (She/Her)
4 min readAug 5, 2022

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Forget what you learned at school or in higher education.

English literature was fluffy and way too wordy!

If we want to reach more people, we need to shake up our writing style.

And maybe even break a few grammar rules!

Traditional approaches to writing donā€™t always translate well with text-to-speech technology.

You could be missing out on a whole pool of ā€˜readersā€™ because they canā€™t access your work.

Donā€™t worry Iā€™m here to give you some simple ideas. But first, you need to understand what accessibility isā€¦

Understanding Accessibility as a Writer

So, you think you understand accessibility as a writer?

Do you want to maximise your audience?

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Trisha Dunbar (She/Her)

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