A Simple Flesch-Kincaid Calculator for Markdown

This is a quick post inspired by a situation that someone posted about on r/TechnicalWriting . A technical writer is working as a contractor, needed to evaluate the readability of their content, but was limited in terms of the tools that they could acquire due to strict security and confidentiality requirements. At first glance, assessing how hard it is to read a text is a matter of semantics…