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[taimatsu]

miss_corinne's got a new post up at Simply Understand - she's translated the current government consultation on Protecting Crowded Places from terrorist attack into plain English.

I thought this one in particular might be of interest to my civil-liberties-campaigner friends. This might be a consultation you want to respond to or direct your readers, if you blog, to pay attention to. Also, Simply Understand is a great site and you should read it. :)

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

I'd read it if it didn't require Flash (proprietary software available only for a few browsers on a few platforms) to read plain text (just about the most open format there is)!

[taimatsu]

She might see this, but you could also pop a comment on the post and let her know about the accessibility issue?

[evath.livejournal.com]

Looks to me like it's a pretty PDF thingy inside flash. So the PDF would be more handy if not the plain text. There is some irony here...

[miss-corinne.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a proper way to host the PDFs yet, blogger's rather rubbish for useful things like that! I'm looking at some solutions, though, and in the meantime the PDF for the latest two should be (vaguely) easy to access :)

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Do you just need a web bucket to put things in?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

What an excellent site and idea; that's a keeper for me; ta!

[spencerpine.livejournal.com]

That's a wonderful thing. I thought it might be a rather ironic transcription of "What they're really saying", but, no, it's a neat Plain English translation. Lovely.

Graham

[taimatsu]

It is rather good :) Avoids taking a political stance, which is sensible. I think anything which helps get more people involved in the processes of government and legislation is a good thing.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Oh, thankyou for the heads-up - will go over and take a look :)

[miss-corinne.livejournal.com]

p.s. thanks for posting this, and of course I'll be happy to get shown the Reading ropes by you and whoever else wants in :) at least I've actually met you :P

[taimatsu]

:) It will be lovely to see you. What's your likely timing?

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

Oooh! How do you know miss_corinne? She was a mate at uni for me :)

[taimatsu]

I wondered how you knew her! I know her through raggedhalo and other Birmingham folks I met through roleplaying.

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee! Joe!
Linkylink :D

[taimatsu]

Didn't know you knew him. Connection how? :)