Legalese on the Web
Mark Hochhauser has some interesting thoughts about readability on the Web and specifically how legalese is presented.
These are the exact same forms that you could have gotten 10 years ago in a book. If you look at how visual the Web is, why do we have consent policies that are the equivalent of eight pages of text? It’s no surprise that people ignore them.
I know I do most of the time. For all I know, I’ve already sold my soul many times over. When asked if any company doing a decent job of writing in plain English, Hochhauser points out that Yahoo’s updated Privacy Policy is “not bad.”
(via Tomalak’s Realm)
- 23 Apr 02
- law, privacy, readability, usability
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