- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 08:42:25 -0500 (EST)
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: "'Yvette P. Hoitink'" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
More unusal than brief. Chaals On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >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 > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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