- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:06:24 -0500
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, "'William Loughborough'" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "'GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail)'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
My point is just that complex language should never be used where more straightforward language can be found. (we even have a guidelines that says that!) I will also balance that with my favorite quote from Albert "Everything should be made as simple as possible.. but no simpler" A Einstein So lets strive to make things as simple as possible. Not degrading them. But making them more elegant. More piquant. More concise. More understandable. Wherever we can. Gregg -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 9:14 PM To: William Loughborough Cc: gv@trace.wisc.edu; GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail) Subject: 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". -- -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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