- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:46:25 -0600
- To: "'Yvette P. Hoitink'" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Concise is a better word. Is that also an unusual word. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yvette P. Hoitink Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:13 AM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: HTML techniques - "Terse" substitutes for header labels (no blocker) Going over the HTML techniques draft, I came across the technique called "Terse substitutes for header labels": <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20031020.html#datatabl es_abbr> I am not a native speaker of English, but I do read a lot of books and articles in English (on average 500-1000 pages per week for the last 10 years or so) so I do not think I have a limited vocabulary. However, I had never heard of the word "terse" before. When I looked it up using dictionary.com, it said "Brief and to the point; effectively concise". Wouldn't "brief" be a better word, i.e. "Brief substitutes for header labels". Or even "short", to use the simplest words to convey the meaning. Yvette Hoitink CEO Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands
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