- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:32:22 -0700
- To: gv@trace.wisc.edu
- CC: "GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
GV:: "my first point is that many of our principles are way too
academic."
WL: I had hoped that would be the idea. They will almost always be in
the context of having Guidelines and Checkpoints associated with them
but they furnish a "lofty" view of what we're about. I seem to remember
the words "abstract" and "general" - which almost demands "academic".
I have no quarrel with all the rest of the (mostly
editorial/wordsmithing issues) comments in Gregg's post. But please
let's let the prinicples be Principles. They can say it in general
enough terms (and abstractly enough) that they might even resound. I
believe their brevity (and IMO clarity) trumps any complaints about
"academic" leading to a turn-off. The casual reader (whatever that is in
this case!) only has to look down one more line and be in a "real world"
description of the "how" and even a bit of "what".
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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