Re: Terminology Problem: "Avoid"

I am editing a draft now that gets rid of avoid.  In two instances I 
propose saying, "do not...." However I think this wording is actually too 
strong, but I want to get people's reactions.
--w

At 02:01 PM 9/29/00 , William Loughborough wrote:
>At 10:32 AM 9/29/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>>The verb "avoid" should be avoided -- er, should NEVER BE USED -- in WCAG 
>>2.0.
>>--Kynn, the guy who nitpicked for "author" vs. "user" in ATAG
>
>Yep! --William, the guy who joined in Kynn's nitpicking in ATAG.
>
>Also "ensure" is sort of like "guarantee" and whatever it is that is to be 
>"ensured" might just as well be "done" - instead of ensuring that blah, 
>blah it might be better to just blah, blah.
>
>--
>Love.
>                 ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE

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Received on Thursday, 19 October 2000 15:40:57 UTC