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Create a technical page option that allows for a higher-grade level score #219

Open mworcutt opened 3 years ago

mworcutt commented 3 years ago

EEA has some mass.gov content that consists of highly technical subject matter that cannot be written to a sixth grade reading level, resulting in low page scores. For example, our Department of Environmental Protection regulates a lot of chemicals and needs to use chemical names, that are considered above the sixth-grade reading level.

Would it be possible to add a “technical-page” option to the CMS that would increase the grade level standard of the content, perhaps to grade 12 or at least 10?

mpineau commented 3 years ago

To echo Mike's request, I wanted to add that it appears as though @mass.gov email addresses and the names of state organizations are being construed as words that could be rephrased at a lower grade level. That's obviously not possible.

joeg8612 commented 1 year ago

We are working to let you assess content using the scoring factors that are most relevant to you. We will soon have a report that lets you see pages with low feedback scores. You can use SiteImprove to see pages with broken links and pages with high grade levels.

joeg8612 commented 1 year ago

We will be moving away from a score that includes grade level because of this. We encourage authors to look at grade level in the context of their content.