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Turnaround Time of Easy Read

Purpose

Understanding the turnaround time of Easy Read is essential to assessing whether Easy Read can be used as a timely communication tool. When turnaround time is measured in weeks, Easy Read cannot respond to urgent communication needs. When turnaround time is measured in minutes, Easy Read becomes viable for any document, at any time.

Scope

Turnaround time is relevant to any organisation that commissions or produces Easy Read and needs to respond to real-time communication demands — for example, in a public health event, a policy consultation, or a service change notification. It is a structural constraint on the adoption of Easy Read at scale.

Components

  • Human powered translation turnaround: typically four to eight weeks from commissioning to delivery, dependent on document complexity and specialist availability 

  • AI powered translation turnaround: typically minutes from document upload to downloadable output using DIY Easy Read 

  • Review and editing time: additional time required for review, whether human-powered or AI-produced output

Outputs

A document that is accessible within a timeframe that meets the communication need. Where turnaround time is reduced, Easy Read becomes a viable option for a broader range of documents and contexts.

Relationships

Authority and Intellectual Property

The framing of turnaround time as a structural barrier to Easy Read adoption is a definitional contribution of DIY Easy Read. The underlying production time data reflects industry practice in the Easy Read sector.

Version control

First published:

17 June 2026 at 12:44:48 pm

Last reviewed:

27 June 2026 at 9:40:02 am

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