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Re: Mnemonic, acronym, name or handle for Mobile Web document

From: Justin Thorp <juth@loc.gov>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:40:10 -0500
Message-Id: <474EA51A020000D80002314E@ntgwgate.loc.gov>
To: "Sharron Rush" <srush@knowbility.org>,"EOWG" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>

While acronyms can be helpful, they can also act as a barrier to understanding... they become inside baseball jargon. I'm just weary of this important concept getting lost in one more acronym that people would have to learn and remember.

- justin

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>>> Sharron Rush <srush@knowbility.org> 11/29/2007 11:34 AM >>>

At 03:36 AM 11/29/2007, Alan wrote:
>I think it would be good to keep "Best Practices" and "Guidelines" to
>emphasise that it's about those documents and not the concepts in
>general...

I liked Liam's suggestions, so how about incorporating Guidelines like this:

MOGWAC for Mobile Guidelines for Web Accessibility
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