DeepL Write for TYPO3
Since June 2025, the functions of DeepL Write for TYPO3 have been available in versions 12 and 13. DeepL Write helps to optimise texts. The following language styles are available:
- Simple: For simple, easy-to-understand texts for a wide audience
- Business: For emails at work, pitches, reports and presentations
- Academic: For research papers, articles, dissertations and books
- Casual: For informal texts in social media, messaging apps and blogs
Choose whether texts should sound informal or formal. Change the tone of your texts to either enthusiastic, friendly, confident or diplomatic.
Easier writing - for everyone
The Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG), which transposes the European Accessibility Act (EAA) into German law, will come into force on 28 June 2025. This puts understandable language at the centre of digital accessibility.
At web-vision, we are also working to make websites more accessible - with clear design and comprehensible content. One key to this: Texts in Simple Language. They support people with learning difficulties, little knowledge of German or cognitive impairments. That's why we developed DeepL Write for TYPO3.
This is exactly where DeepL Write for TYPO3 can help: With just a few clicks, texts can be stylistically simplified or - depending on the goal - academically enhanced. For more comprehensibility, more participation - and better content for everyone.
DeepL Write - Development Preview
DeepL Write for TYPO3 is currently available free of charge for installation via packagist.com exclusively for partners as part of the DeepL Translate Early Access programme. All required packages can be easily installed via Composer:
composer require 'web-vision/deepltranslate-core':'^5.1'
Otherwise, DeepL Write for TYPO3 can be tested by anyone without their own installation as part of the TYPO3 v13 demo for DeepL Translate. The access data for the DeepL demo instance can be requested here and then tested immediately.
Measuring readability - with the Flesch-Kincaid index
To make texts truly understandable, it is not enough to simply simplify them - you also need to be able to objectively check how easy they are to read. The Flesch-Kincaid readability index is a proven tool for this: It rates texts based on words contained, sentence length and syllable count and indicates how easy or difficult a text is to grasp.
The Flesch-Kincaid scale rates how easy a text is to read - the higher the value, the easier the text is to understand. The scale typically ranges from 0 to 100:
- 90 - 100: very easy to understand (e.g. for children aged 11 and over)
- 70 - 89: easy to understand (e.g. for young people, general public)
- 50 - 69: medium difficulty (e.g. for adults with an average education)
- 30 - 49: rather demanding (e.g. specialist texts)
- 0 - 29: very difficult to understand (e.g. scientific texts)
A target value of 60-70 is considered ideal for generally accessible websites.
By integrating such metrics into the editorial workflow, content can be optimized specifically for the desired target groups, e.g. for accessible websites or public communication. Texts become clearer, misunderstandings less frequent - and more people can follow, regardless of their previous experience or language skills.
DeepL Write for TYPO3 can help here.
The DeepL Write integration for TYPO3 enables the readability index according to Flesch-Kincaid to be measured directly while texts are being entered and edited. The side-by-side view shows the original text compared to the text optimized by DeepL Write. If necessary, the content can then be edited again before it is finally saved in the content element.
