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Submitted by Mohammed Messaoud on August 23, 2022, at 20:19

I agree with you that current readability formulas do not account for many aspects of plain language, including usability factors.
I think if there is something to blame, it should not be readability as a bottom-up cognitive process. Rather, it should be the formula's inability to get updated to eventually contain usability factors. It is, for one, a mere technical issue to fix. An AI-based readability formula is the solution.
What do you think Gael?
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