Re: [style guide] Thoughts on approach

Thanks for getting this going, Sharron!

I think that we want this Style Guide to be as short and easy-to-consume as feasible. If so, we'll want to be thoughtful about what we include and what not to clutter it with. For example, maybe we don't need to include obvious things, and certainly we don't want to recreate general writing best practices.

An example of a questionable item is: write out abbreviations on first reference. I'll start a separate thread on that point specifically...

Another point is that we want this Style Guide to be for all of the WAI website, and for Understanding WCAG at least. For some aspects, we might have different styles for different types of resources/documents/pages.

Thanks,
~Shawn


On 6/30/2017 10:14 AM, Sharron Rush wrote:
> I am thinking about how this will be presented and would like to suggest this format.  Sarah and Shawn, if you agree I will format the wiki to reflect these sections:
> 
> *Introduction* – What the guide is meant to do, how it will make our job easier, and how to use it.*
> 
> Voice* – Can we make a statement about what we want the quality of the voice to be? I am thinking about some of the adjectives we used to describe how we wanted the web site to be.  Some words that will suggest rhythm, and maybe a list of voice qualities to avoid. Each statement could then be explained it in more detail and examples provided for how to put it into practice*.
> 
> Tone* – This seems a bit trickier and might entail how to use the voice we agree on with different tones. There will be variation depending on different scenarios, do you agree?  This may be a place to reference our personas.
> 
> *Style* – After introducing the guide and setting voice and tone, that's when I think we get into the style guide items that Shawn and Annabelle started and Sarah expanded on.
> 
> *Specialist language* – Since this is a specialized filed, should we include any guidance on how to reference disability, W3C process, referencing materials or anything else that is super-specialized for our environment?
> 
> Throughout I strongly believe that we should use as many examples as possible and be specific to our own stuff, as the first set of guides has done. Is this an approach we can agree on? or have I overlooked or misunderstood any of it? This is new to me so don't hesitate to let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sharron
> 
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