Summary & Minutes of Silver Content meeting of 28 January 2020

== Summary ==

Kim put hours into the survey design.  We will send to the AGWG and 
Silver list on Tuesday or Wednesday.  Send comments to Jeanne by Tuesday 
night.  Suggestions were made to shorten the survey.

Updates from subgroups: Alt text will have the Techniques updated by 
next Tuesday.  Clear Language has completed their work.  There were 
suggestions from the group for changes:

  * Avoid repetition and use more cross-referencing.  It's a chicken-egg
    problem because we don't have the material written yet to
    cross-reference to.
  * Add a tab that lists all the Methods. There needs to be a fast way
    for people who want to get to the Methods to get to that quickly.
  * Get more design help.  Design help is in progress. We need to
    schedule usability testing.
  * Move the Guideline name above the tabs so it isn't repeated in every
    tab. Jeanne will do.
  * Suggest describing the Activity instead of having the guideline in
    the box.
  * Add H1 and change name to Clear Language Guidance for the H1 and title.
  * Change the guideline to make it more obvious that it applies to
    blocks of text and isn't addressing labels.

There was discussion of the guideline text, which is the last to be 
written.  "Use clear language that readers easily understand." We had a 
discussion of "easily understand".  Some felt that "easily" could not be 
used in a legal context.  One suggestion was to make it comparative, 
"more easily".  The defense of easily is that it is used by the American 
Bar Association:  "The goal is to create a clear and concise document 
that is easily understood.” -Better legal Writing-American Bar Association

== Minutes ==

https://www.w3.org/2020/01/28-silver-minutes.html