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April 2025 Newsletter

  • Writer: Meg
    Meg
  • May 1
  • 3 min read

Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the Easy Read Online newsletter!


We hope you’ve been enjoying the sunshine as much as we have. This month, we’ve been proud to translate some powerful and important documents, resources that we believe can help to raise awareness and support the rights of disabled people.



Working with Amnesty International


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We were proud to work with Amnesty International - the world’s largest grassroots human rights organisation - on translating their ‘Social Insecurity Report’ into Easy Read.


This report is a deep dive into how the UK government is currently managing social security and how it interprets human rights laws set out by the United Nations. Social security is vital for many disabled people, helping cover the basic costs of living. When social security is insecure or inadequate, it hits disabled people the hardest.


In their report, Amnesty International offers strong recommendations for improving the social security system, most importantly, by recognising social security as a human right.


Translating this report into Easy Read can lead to more people understanding and engaging with the policies and decisions that directly affect them, instead of being spoken about by others.

The report is based on responses to a national survey, and one of our technical writers did an excellent job turning those voices into clear, emotional, and accessible writing.


You can read the Easy Read version of the report here: Social Insecurity Report Easy Read



Working with Activity Alliance


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Similarly, in October 2024, our long-time client Activity Alliance ran a survey asking young disabled people about their experiences with local sports and physical activity. The findings are now published in a report titled ‘A Game of Inequality: The Reality of Sporting Dreams for Young Disabled People’, which they then commissioned us to translate into Easy Read.


We’re always proud to support projects that amplify the voices of young disabled people, and it’s fantastic to see Activity Alliance continuing to prioritise accessibility by sharing Easy Read versions of their work. It’s a clear reflection of their commitment to inclusion.


One of our technical writers expertly translated complex statistics from survey findings into clear, easy-to-understand statements, maintaining accuracy while making the content more accessible for a wider audience. If you want to find out more about Easy Read, and what makes the language we use ‘easy to read’, you can check out our website: Easy Read Online - Homepage



A new language translation


Did you know we also help our clients translate Easy Read documents into different languages? Our process starts with creating the Easy Read version in English. From there, we translate the Easy Read text into the requested language, then format it to match the original Easy Read layout before delivering the final version to the client.


This approach has proven successful time and again, and we’ve helped translate Easy Read documents into a wide range of languages, including Polish, Farsi, Punjabi, and many more.


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This April, we were excited to support a translation in a new language! In 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Heba Hagrass, visited Kyrgyzstan to assess the country's progress in putting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into action, since it was agreed to in 2019. After her visit, a detailed report was produced, which we translated into Easy Read and then into Russian.



Our commitment to improvement


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If you are familiar with our newsletter or our ethos at Easy Read Online, you will know that continuous improvement is at the heart of everything we do. We are always evolving our Easy Read work to better meet the needs of our end users and to give our clients confidence that the accessible information they share is truly fit for purpose.


Our latest step forward came this April: we launched a brand new user feedback survey specifically for Easy Read end users. A link to the survey now appears at the beginning of our Easy Read documents, giving readers the opportunity to tell us what they think of our Easy Read.


We are excited about the potential of this new feature - it allows us to hear from people we haven’t yet had the chance to co-produce with, and we hope it will lead to even more meaningful improvements in the future.



Best wishes from the Easy Read Online team.



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