Re: Comments and edits for the DRAFT WCAG 2.0

I have no problem with the principles being academic, but I think we should
try to express them in language that is a bit closer to what people speak.

Charles

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, William Loughborough wrote:

  GV:: "my first point is that many of our principles are way too
  academic."
  
  WL: I had hoped that would be the idea. They will almost always be in
  the context of having Guidelines and Checkpoints associated with them
  but they furnish a "lofty" view of what we're about. I seem to remember
  the words "abstract" and "general" - which almost demands "academic".
  
  I have no quarrel with all the rest of the (mostly
  editorial/wordsmithing issues) comments in Gregg's post. But please
  let's let the prinicples be Principles. They can say it in general
  enough terms (and abstractly enough) that they might even resound. I
  believe their brevity (and IMO clarity) trumps any complaints about
  "academic" leading to a turn-off. The casual reader (whatever that is in
  this case!) only has to look down one more line and be in a "real world"
  description of the "how" and even a bit of "what".
  
  

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