RE: HTML techniques - "Terse" substitutes for header labels (no blocker)

Concise is a better word.  Is that also an unusual word.

 
Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 


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Subject: HTML techniques - "Terse" substitutes for header labels (no
blocker)


Going over the HTML techniques draft, I came across the technique called
"Terse substitutes for header labels":
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20031020.html#datatabl
es_abbr>

I am not a native speaker of English, but I do read a lot of books and
articles in English (on average 500-1000 pages per week for the last 10
years or so) so I do not think I have a limited vocabulary. However, I had
never heard of the word "terse" before. 

When I looked it up using dictionary.com, it said "Brief and to the point;
effectively concise". Wouldn't "brief" be a better word, i.e. "Brief
substitutes for header labels". Or even "short", to use the simplest words
to convey the meaning.

Yvette Hoitink
CEO Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands