Spring Easy Read Newsletter 2025

Welcome to our spring newsletter. We hope you’re enjoying the sunnier days and lighter evenings as much as us!

Remember, Easy Read Online can help if you need:

Easy Read translations.
Plain English translations.
Original documents to be made compliant with web accessibility standards.
Easy Read documents that you’d like to be checked by people with lived experience.
Other accessibility features or formats.

Here are some of the things we’ve been up to recently.

Easy Read Online quarterly training day

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Our team met up in Liverpool last Friday to take part in our quarterly training day. This was a chance for the team to catch up and share knowledge about the recent improvements we have made to our working practices.

This included some training for the whole team on creating Plain Language documents. Plain Language is putting technical text in ‘layman's terms’ which should be able to be read and understood by everybody.

We have recently started to offer this service to clients alongside Easy Read. Click here to get a quote for Plain English translation.

We hold our training days on Fridays, when we are usually not working due to our 4 day week. This means there is no impact on turnaround times for clients.

Contributing to the Disability Business Forum

We spoke to around 75 participants at the recent Business Disability Forum about Easy Read.

We shared more information about what Easy Read is, who it’s for and the process of translating complex information into Easy Read.

The Business Disability Forum is a membership organisation which works with businesses to remove barriers to inclusion for disabled people.

New illustrations!

Our trademark illustrations make Easy Read Online documents stand out. The illustrations are based on real-world images, so are more relatable and useful to the end user. We work with people with learning disabilities to check the illustrations and have had really positive feedback.

All of our images are created by our brilliant in-house illustrator Danni! Recently she’s been working on some new illustrations for specific documents, such as an illustration of a blood transfusion and chest pain.

Illustration of someone receiving a blood transfusion.

Illustration of a young woman clutching her chest with a frown.

Spotlight project - Easy Read policies for the NHS

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We recently created some Easy Read translations for an NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB). The documents were policies for paying people with learning disabilities for their work to co-produce services.

The policies outline how the ICB recognises people with lived experience and how much they should be paid.

This is a great example of why Easy Read is so vital. Providing these policies in Easy Read will enable the co-producers to understand their rights and be able to advocate for themselves.

That’s all from us for this month.

We hope you have a great month ahead and enjoy all of the upcoming Easter bank holidays!

Best wishes from the Easy Read Online team.

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