Re: W3C Manual Of Style

Michael Cooper at one point stated or implied there was a WCAG style guide, but I’m not sure I ever got a link to it, so this is useful.
Knowing we can settle on Chicago for style and Merriam-Webster’s 10th for spelling (with a fallback) is useful.

The terms<https://www.w3.org/Guide/manual-of-style/#Terms> section is pretty sparse. I’ve started a word usage section on a new Style Guide<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/wiki/WCAG-style-guide> page on  our wiki that we can use as an addendum.

Bruce, I’ve pulled out your style reference and included it there.

Mike

From: Bruce Bailey <Bailey@Access-Board.gov>
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 11:51 AM
To: Storr, Francis <francis.storr@intel.com>, public-wcag2-issues@w3.org <public-wcag2-issues@w3.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: W3C Manual Of Style
Francis, thank you! I have added a link to the style guide from the bottom of our wiki home page. I am pleased to see we have the flexibility to use lowercase web (when as part of a phrase), and that website can be the single word. I was not
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Francis, thank you!

I have added a link to the style guide from the bottom of our wiki home page<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/wiki/>.

I am pleased to see we have the flexibility to use lowercase web (when as part of a phrase), and that website can be the single word.  I was not expecting either of those!


From: Storr, Francis <francis.storr@intel.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2024 1:35 PM
To: public-wcag2-issues@w3.org
Subject: W3C Manual Of Style

Hi, all

We’ve been updating content recently to correct the casing of Web, website, etc. In a recent call, we also mentioned the lack of a style guide. However! I’ve discovered that the W3C has a Manual Of Style and it’s still being updated. The Commonly Misspelled Words section contains all the Web-related guides, although it’s perhaps not helpful to allow uppercase and lowercase the word “web”!

Francis