Copyedit for 2023 audit: Types of VA disability claims and when to file

[RLHecht]

Issue Description

For the annual audit of all the pages in the disability hub, OCTO content lead assessed these 10 content issues on the Types of VA disability claims and when to file page and made changes that need copyediting before we republish the page:

• The intro paragraph has no more than 2 to 4 sentences, is within 200 to 400 characters with spaces, and has short sentences to align with PL standards
• Header levels are hierarchical
• The page has no broken links
• Text links have purpose and target
• The content is free of ability-focused language (view, walk, see, hear) Note: This page has "appears," which we've decided is ok when we talk about disabilities that "appear after military service." Not sure we need to rephrase this since one of the meanings in M-W is "to become evident or manifest."
• Relevant terms from page are in content brief and any relevant backlog work is noted
• Fix lead-in lines to bulleted lists so the lead-in is a complete sentence (to support eventual translation)

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Tasks

Copyedit the changes made

(review revisions only, not the full page) to https://www.va.gov/disability/how-to-file-claim/when-to-file/

• [x] The intro paragraph has no more than 2 to 4 sentences, is within 200 to 400 characters with spaces, and has short sentences to align with PL standards
• [x] Header levels are hierarchical
• [x] The page has no broken links
• [x] Text links have purpose and target
• [x] The content is free of ability-focused language (view, walk, see, hear) Note: This page has "appears," which we've decided is ok when we talk about disabilities that "appear after military service." Not sure we need to rephrase this since one of the meanings in M-W is "to become evident or manifest."
• [ ] Relevant terms from page are in content brief and any relevant backlog work is noted
• [x] Fix lead-in lines to bulleted lists so the lead-in is a complete sentence (to support eventual translation)

Check accuracy with SME & publish

• [x] Request review from Paul Shute, SME
• [x] Incorporate his changes in Drupal
• [x] Add notes from him to the record of audit for this page
• [x] Publish page
• [x] Record the Flesch-Kincaid before and after grade level

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Updates are live on the site

[megzehn]

I sent this to Paul's team for an SME review. Holding to publish until we hear back from them.

[megzehn]

Update: We shifted to a new SME.

I recorded updates on the GH file

There were no requested updates on this, so we can close it out.