Organized around, International Plain Language Day (held on 13 October each year), 2020’s virtual edition of Clarity International’s Conference “Access for All: Plain Language is a Civil Right” is the theme of this year’s edition. It’s goal is to encourage government and industry to make their communications more accessible. It highlights the crucial importance of this in contexts such as the health and justice systems, in which a person’s clear understanding of their rights and responsibilities is essential for their fair and just treatment and their well-being.
To support this, ISO is currently developing a new standard, ISO 24495, Plain language – Part 1: Governing principles and guidelines, which will provide authors in most languages with an approach that helps them communicate effectively with their audiences. It will feature high-level principles, guidelines and techniques to help writers everywhere produce communications that work.
