Re: accessibility supported/accessibility-supported

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> Name: Makoto Ueki
> Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com
> Affiliation: JIS Working Group
> Document: W2
> Item Number: (none selected)
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> Comment Type: editorial
> Summary of Issue: accessibility supported/accessibility-supported
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> There are both "accessibility supported" and "accessibility-supported" in WCAG 2.0 CR. Are they intentional or editorial mistakes?
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> Proposed Change:
> Need consistency through the document if they are editorial mistakes.
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Response from the Working Group
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They are both correct. In English if you have two words that modify a
third, the two words should be hyphenated. Thus
'accessibility-supported technology' should be hyphenated but 'the
technology is accessibility supported' would not.

Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group

Received on Friday, 29 August 2008 19:06:23 UTC