> On Apr 28, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am fine with changing it but with the prefix it is a mouthful.
If you want it shorter, the other abbreviation change to consider is whether the prefix is too long.
There is no precedent for non-abbreviations in prefixing (dpub- is already an accepted abbreviation) so you could consider a shorter prefix
g-
gr-
gfx-
etc.
> Now would be the time to change it. We can post it like does anyone object to the name change and just do it if no objections. I don't want to take meeting time for that.
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> Rich
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> Rich
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> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com <mailto:amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> If there is consensus on the main ARIA working group to go with the longer name, I don't have a problem with that. In the SVG Accessibility Task Force, we did discuss a number of variations on the name and settled on graphics-doc as a compromise between concise and comprehensible.
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>> I would ask for a quick resolution, though (i.e., comments on mailing list this week & discussion at the next ARIA telcon), so we can update all the specs sooner rather than later, and definitely before the next heartbeat drafts.
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>> ~Amelia
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>> On 28 April 2016 at 19:14, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com <mailto:jcraig@apple.com>> wrote:
>> While reviewing a related thread, I noticed the "graphics-doc" role should be "graphics-document"... With the unfortunate exception of the "img" role (I admit missing this), ARIA has avoided inconsistent abbreviation.
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>> http://www.w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/#graphics-doc <http://www.w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/#graphics-doc>
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