--- title: "Foundations of Readability Create accessible, easy-to-process documents and presentations" author: "Dominik Lukeš" book_id: "readability-foundations" licence: "CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution), as stated in the original guide" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/" source_url: "https://readability.edutools.fyi/" reader_url: "https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations" sections: 14 sections_with_text: 14 --- # Foundations of Readability Create accessible, easy-to-process documents and presentations By Dominik Lukeš. An interactive guide on document and presentation readability principles based on the work of Dominik Lukeš. Licence: [CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution), as stated in the original guide](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/). Source: https://readability.edutools.fyi/ This is the agent copy of the book. The whole text is one file: [full.md](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/full.md). Each section is also its own file, listed in order below with its address in the reader. Machine-readable list: [manifest.json](manifest.json). ## Contents - [Five principles](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/five-principles.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=five-principles) - [How people read](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/how-people-read.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=how-people-read) - [Cognitive load](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/cognitive-load.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=cognitive-load) - [10 tips for documents](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/10-simple-things-docs.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=10-simple-things-docs) - [10 tips for slides](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/10-simple-things-ppt.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=10-simple-things-ppt) - [Visual examples (Text)](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/formatting-examples.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=formatting-examples) - [Visual examples (Slides)](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/slide-formatting-examples.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=slide-formatting-examples) - [3 steps to simple language](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/3-steps-simple.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=3-steps-simple) - [Examples](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/examples.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=examples) - [Jargon & Acronyms](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/acronyms.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=acronyms) - [Readability Checker](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/readability-tool.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=readability-tool) - [Language Checklist](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/checklist.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=checklist) - [Accessibility](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/accessibility.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=accessibility) - [Evidence](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/agent/readability-foundations/chapters/evidence.md) · [reader](https://dominiklukes.net/books/readability/?book=readability-foundations§ion=evidence)