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2023 Update on the Federation
The Federation has been working on standards, training and certification. 2023 will bring the first international standard for plain language: ISO 24495-1. But much more is happening.
Update on ISO’s draft plain language standard ─ now due in 2022
The good news about ISO’s draft plain language standard is that we have a close-to-final draft. The not-so-good news is that the likely date for publication of the standard will be about a year later than we originally expected.
Access for All plain language conference – part 2
May 2021Hosted by Clarity, PLAIN and the Center for Plain Language The conference had a first part in October 2020. Vera Gergely (Hungary)Chair of the International Plain Language Federation (IPLF)Chair of the ISO project’s Drafting CommitteeUpdates on the...
Access for All plain language conference – part 1
October 2020Hosted by Clarity, PLAIN and the Center for Plain Language The conference had a second part in May 2021. Discussion panel video https://player.vimeo.com/video/504544165 Chair Barbra Kingsley, Chair of the Center for Plain Language Panel Laurent Romary,...
An ISO plain language standard
Where we’re at, next steps, and the back story Christopher Balmford, Chair, ISO TC 37 WG 11, Plain Language Project 7 September 2020 Next update Access for all online plain language conference, Wed 14 Oct 2020 Where we’re at The International Standards Organization ―...
Plain language standard update: Good news
October 2019 Good news! ISO’s Technical Committee 37 voted yes to approve work starting on an ISO standard for plain language. When Annetta Cheek, Chair of the IPLF, announced the result to the 400 + people at PLAIN’s Oslo conference last week, there was loud and...
How you can be involved in developing the ISO standard
You can read the latest update about ISO’s project to develop a plain language standard here. Directly involved For you to be directly involved in the development of the standard: you need to be a member of the relevant committee of your country’s standards...
International Plain Language Federation launches website and 2020 agenda.
Oslo— September 23, 2019 Today the International Plain Language Federation launches a new website and the agenda for plain language in 2020 at the PLAIN2019 Conference. Each year there is an international conference and the PLAIN2019 Conference is in Oslo this week....
One giant step towards a plain language standard
June 2019 The International Plain Language Federation’s efforts to establish an international, multi-language, plain language standard took one giant step forward in Ottawa, Canada during the week of June 23, 2019. There, a proposal for a plain language standard was...