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Easy Read Winter Newsletter

  • Writer: Becky
    Becky
  • 6 hours ago
  • 2 min read

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2026! The Easy Read Online team is back and in full swing, and we’re excited for the year ahead.

Remember, Easy Read Online can help if you need:

  • Easy Read translations.

  • Plain English translations.

  • Original documents to be made compliant with web accessibility standards.

  • Easy Read documents that you’d like to be checked by people with lived experience. 

  • Other accessibility features or formats.

We also provide Easy Read training to professionals and organisations who want to create their own accessible resources. Email us today to find out more and get your quote: quotes@easy-read-online.co.uk

How end-user voices shape our work

For more than a decade, a group of people with learning disabilities at Mencap Liverpool and Sefton have been regularly reviewing examples of our Easy Read documents to check if they are up to scratch.

The key to creating high-quality Easy Read documents is working with end-users, so their feedback has played a huge role in shaping our work.

If you would like your Easy Read document to be checked by a group of people with learning disabilities, you can ask us for this service as an optional add-on!



Group photograph of the Liverpool Mencap group and the Easy Read Online team in a meeting room.

Creating documents with impact

Easy Read documents can help make a real difference for people with a learning disability.

We worked on a wide range of Easy Read projects in 2025, from job applications and benefits information to resources for survivors of abuse and guides on cancer treatment.

We’ve also seen an uptick in the number of Easy Read Disability Action Plans and Disability Strategies we’ve been asked to create for government and council organisations across the UK.

Making these plans more accessible gives people with a learning disability a better chance to get involved in planning services and have their voices heard. The increase in this work highlights a growing commitment to upholding disabled people’s rights across the public sector.

To find out more about how to create Easy Read documents with real impact, check out our latest blog post.

Easy Read Standards

We have been collaborating with several other Easy Read producers to formalise some industry standards for the creation of Easy Read. These standards are about helping Easy Read writers in the UK create high-quality Easy Read that is useful for its readers.

We’re currently trialling the draft standards, and the aim is to publish the final version by the end of 2026. So watch this space!

Easy Read Online apprenticeship

Illustration of Presley. He has brown curly hair and is wearing a grey hoodie.

In September, we began partnering with Manchester Metropolitan University to support our apprentice, Presley, on a 3-year degree apprenticeship.

Presley tells us a bit about how the apprenticeship is going so far:

My apprenticeship is going really well – it’s been a positive experience where I’m benefiting from both the learning and the practical aspects.

I’ve developed coding skills in Java and some theoretical understanding of digital technology in organisations, including things like stakeholder theory and critical writing.

Have you downloaded our Winter Guide?

An illustration of a woman reading a book with a cup of tea on a couch. The text above reads 'Free Easy Read Winter guide'

And finally, there’s still a chill in the air, so it’s worth downloading our free Easy Read Winter Guide if you haven’t done so yet.

Our new and updated guide for Winter 2025/26 provides advice on staying warm & healthy, help with money, and looking out for others.

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