"readability" of illustrations (was: Readability statistics: is anyone... ?)

[Shira Abel]

I'm still trying to get my head around a second grade reading level. Kids
only learn to read in 1st grade, so that means no multi-syllabic words
whatsoever. See Dick? See Dick type?

-s

On 1/15/07, Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> --- Dick Margulis <margulisd at comcast.net> wrote:
> > They had only a few weeks to produce
> > complete maintenance doc at--get this
> > --a second grade reading level. They
> > brought in every technical illustrator
> > they could lay their hands on and basically
> > provided comic-book-level documentation
>
> So, the requirement called for maintenance doc at a
> second grade reading level. Was the doc going to be
> tested? If so, wouldn't they have to throw out the
> test if you handed them a bunch of illustrations? Or
> was there already a test for the comprehensibility of
> illustrations?
>
> Come to think of it, IS there a comprehensibility test
> for illustrations?
>
>
>
> Milan
> http://altmilan.blogspot.com
> http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2758
>
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