[Meta] AI Reading Comprehension Level

Goals & Guiding Principles

• Allow users to adjust text to a desired reading age or comprehension level.
• Support simpler language options for improved accessibility.
• Enable adjustments directly in the frontend, so users can change the level on the fly without reloading.

MVP Functionality

Frontend / Design

• Provide a flexible “Adjust Reading Level” control in the frontend (with multiple level options).

Configuration

• Define which sections of the page should be adapted (e.g., content inside the article DOM element).
• Configure caching rules: how long adapted text should be stored before refreshing, so the system does not call the AI service on every request.
• Decide which entity types should support this feature.

Backend

• Add a toggle or button to relevant pages.
• Implement caching logic to reuse previously generated text and invalidate according to configuration.
• Provide an endpoint to retrieve adapted content.

AI Functionality

• Provide AI functionality to receive input from the frontend and return updated content based on the selected reading/comprehension level.

Post-MVP Functionality

Extend beyond text to adapt other media, e.g.:

• Simplify or replace complex images.
• Provide explanations for videos.

Support backend-driven preparation of adapted content, e.g.:

• Manual triggers for selected content.
• Batch operations to pre-generate adapted versions.
• Make adapted content available for other Drupal functionality, for example different view modes.

Out of Scope

Editor workflows (this feature is only for end users).

More Ideas

TBD

Next Steps

• Review MVP functionality.
• Collect additional ideas.
• Form implementation team.

Develop version 1.