Copyedit for 2023 audit: File additional forms for your disability claim

[RLHecht]

Issue Description

For the rolling audit of all the pages in the disability hub, OCTO content lead assessed these content issues on the File additional forms for your disability claim 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 follows our pattern and style for intros (short sentences, paragraph ends with a CTA, etc.). Rewrote this.
• Pulled all the content out of the chart.
• Moved to related links the content that was related to having a disability but was a different benefit from disability compensation.
• Added clothing allowance as an H2 section.

Copyeditor will check these in addition to copyediting the above-mentioned edits:

• 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)
• Flesch-Kincaid before and after grade level--add to record of audit

Question for the SME:

• We don't currently have clothing allowance on this page on the live site, and we think it may have been an oversight. We've added it to this reworked page. We'd like to verify that it makes sense to include it here.

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Tasks

• [x] Copyedit the changes made (review revisions only, not the full page) to https://www.va.gov/disability/how-to-file-claim/additional-forms/
• [x] Check the items from the copyeditor list above
• [x] Send to stakeholder for review
• [x] Publish page

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Updates are live on the site

[megzehn]

Update: We sent this to the new SME and he submitted feedback 12/7. Next steps are to work with Beth to incorporate.

[megzehn]

Update: The stakeholder is good with these changes.

@chelsealevinson could you do the final prepublish list and publish when you're ready?

[chelsealevinson]

Confirming I copy edited the changes and published this page. Thank you!