Questions organizations ask
House style and approval routes, bids written against a federal solicitation, and the accessibility standards that reach ordinary office files. Each page below gathers the questions a person would ask in the same sitting, and each answer says what is known, what is disputed, and what nobody can tell you in advance. Where a claim can be checked, the source is cited and linked.
Bids, proposals, and reports
- Proposals and bids What a solicitation says about how a proposal will be read, which section the edit starts from, what the deadline rules really are, and what editing can and cannot change.
- Grant applications The published font, margin, and file rules at NIH and NSF, where page limits come from, what an editor can cut, and what an editor cannot decide.
Working with an editor
- House style and approval Working without a written house style, what a style sheet records, settling competing terminology, and why an editor asks who signs the document off.
Standards a document has to meet
- Accessible documents Which rule covers whom, which files count as documents, which version of WCAG applies, the compliance dates, and which parts of accessibility are an editing job.
- Disclosure documents What the plain English rule requires, the fifteen-page risk factor threshold, what editing does to a document counsel has approved, and where the line sits.
- Claims and substantiation The Commission's standard for a claim, who holds the evidence, endorsements and material connections, environmental claims, and where disclosures have to sit.