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

I'm a newbie to this list so please forgive me if the acronym in my
suggestion below has already been discussed and rejected by the group.

Suggestion:
Since WCAG is a widely recognized acronym, how about something similar, for
Mobile Best Practices Content Accessibility Guidelines:
MCAG or MWCAG?

Terry

Terry Morris
Associate Professor, Web Development
Harper College

On Nov 30, 2007 3:13 AM, Sylvie duchateau <sylvie.duchateau@snv.jussieu.fr>
wrote:

>
> Hello Shawn and all,
>
> I agree with a short title, if possible, and not too complicated acronyms..
> MWBP is difficult for me to remember : I always have to think of the
> words that build this acronym to remember each letter of this acronym.
> WCAG was difficult at the beginning, but I got used to it.
> I like the short simple title : "How Mobile Web and Web accessibility
> overlap".
> What about an acronym for the words : Mobile Web and Web Accessibility",
> cutting one Web would then be : Mobile Web Accessibility, that is
> MoWebacc.
> The Web being the bridge between Mobile and Accessibility ?
> Best
> Sylvie
> Shawn Henry a écrit :
> >
> >> If this is going to be a handle from the WAI site, could you just say
> >> "Mobile Web Overlap"?  Because it's coming from the WAI site, the
> >> accessibility part is understood.
> >
> > Yes, that works for handle/shortname on WAI site, though think would be
> > good to have a single handle/shortname to cover it from both aspects. If
> > a Mobile Web person is talking about it do we want them to use the same
> > terminology, rather than each of us different?
> >
> >> For a title, how about  - "How Web Accessibility and the Mobile Web
> >> Overlap"
> >
> > nice. even shorter: "How Web Accessibility and Mobile Web Overlap"
> >
> > p.s. I think OK to keep this brainstorming on EOWG list only. When we
> > have more concrete ideas, we should also send them to the MWBP list.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ******************
> >> Justin Thorp
> >> US Library of Congress
> >> Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives
> >> e - juth@loc.gov
> >> p - 202/707-9541
> >>
> >>>>> Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> 11/29/2007 2:45 PM >>>
> >>
> >> It needs something. "Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices
> >> 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" is too long. fyi, for
> >> the agenda and such I found myself using: "MWBP-WCAG Relationship" and
> >> "MWBP-WCAG Overlap"
> >>
> >> Do you hear people saying, "Accessible Rich Internet Applications
> >> Suite" or "new technologies to make JavaScript, Ajax, and stuff
> >> accessible"? No, they happily say "ARIA".
> >>
> >> Rather than think of a jargony acronym, think of a short "handle" that
> >> makes it easy to talk about the concept. That is, it needn't be
> >> letters from a title, it can be a short word or phrase that is similar
> >> to the title. e.g,. the "WAI-AGE" project is actually titled: "Web
> >> Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation"
> >>
> >> Note that it should be easy to *say*. ("MWBP" is not easy for me to
> >> say, and "WCAG" is not for some.)
> >>
> >> Mobile&Accessible... Mobile/Accessibility... MobAcc - MobiAcc - MobWac
> >> - MobiWac - AccMobi...
> >> Let the brainstorming continue... :)
> >>
> >> ~Shawn
> >>
> >>
> >> Swan, Henny wrote:
> >>> I'm wondering if it needs an acronym as well. I always acronyms with
> >>> standards or best practice guidelines but not with other documents.
>  I'm
> >>> finding the use of WAC a little confusing as well as I muddle it with
> >>> Web Access Centre (WAC) which is how my team is referred to and our
> >>> online presence on the RNIB site...but that will just be me!
> >>
> >> justin:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: Mnemonic, acronym, name or handle for Mobile Web document
> >> Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:37:12 +0000
> >> Resent-From: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:36:54 +0100
> >> From: Alan Chuter <achuter@technosite.es>
> >> To: EOWG <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
> >>
> >>
> >> For the creative minds in the group or anyone who has trouble getting
> >> to sleep at night, we need to think up some short way of referring to
> >> the [breathe in] "Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
> >> and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document".
> >>
> >> Liam suggested for acronyms: "MOBACC" and "MOBWAC (Mobile / Web
> >> Accessibility)"  I thought about "AccMobi" but it sounds like an
> >> existing trade name.
> >>
> >> The keywords are:
> >> Mobile Web Best Practices Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
> >> removing the redundant "Web" word gives
> >> Web Mobile Best Practices Content Accessibility Guidelines
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Let's brainstorm...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>


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