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A slight tangent here, but one that I enjoyed: I've used gov.uk services/sites quite a bit and find them easy to follow and almost always written in unambiguou
by samizdis 5y ago
A slight tangent here, but one that I enjoyed:
I've used gov.uk services/sites quite a bit and find them easy to follow and almost always written in unambiguous and clear language. So, having seen this post and the positive comments it generated about gov.uk, I went to the main site and posted a shout-out for the team (especially UI/UX) with a link to this thread. I left my name and email address in the boxes that allow you to request a reply.
I received two automated responses. One contained a tracking link to see the status/progress of my query/comment. The other contained a copy of my comment for my records, and also some info about my set-up at the bottom:
> [User agent]
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36
> [JavaScript Enabled]
false
> Thank you,
> GOV.UK User Support Team
That's a nice touch, in my opinion, and it made me smile.
- d1sxeyes 5y agoTheir internal guidelines on ease-of-reading is to target a reading age of 9. There's a blog that mentions it here: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/23/writing-content-for-everyone/ https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/23/writing-content-for-every... I don't remember exactly where this is published formally, but I've come across it before.