Re: Proposal: We need to identify whether a proposed SC applies broadly

The latest version should be linked from the spreadsheet I created. Linked
from the short handle.
tinyurl.com/jmo9st4


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On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Gregg C Vanderheiden <greggvan@umd.edu>
wrote:

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> I still find it most difficult to find the last versions of things.
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> Thanks for letting me know.
> *g*
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> Gregg C Vanderheiden
> greggvan@umd.edu
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> On Jun 9, 2017, at 3:38 AM, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com> wrote:
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> The word clear and simple were removed from the last version
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> All the best
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> Lisa Seeman
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> ---- On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 17:38:00 +0300 Gregg C Vanderheiden<
> greggvan@umd.edu> wrote ----
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> Hi Jim,
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> Although I worry that this text still uses words like clear and simple
> that are not measurable….
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> regarding your concern,  it is important to note that this text appears to
> be restricted only to instructions labels navigational elements and error
> messages. It does not talk about the content of the page at all.
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> You wrote:
> Most of the words are not testable, and as a result the scope is
> indeterminate. What is clear and simple to a physicist would not be for
> most laypersons.    But if you restricted content on the web to all text
> which is not understandable to most laypersons, then we would have to
> remove all medical, legal, ethical, logic,, poetry, academic, etc. text
> from the web.
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> Gregg C Vanderheiden
> greggvan@umd.edu
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> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:02 AM, Smith, Jim <smithjs@atos.net> wrote:
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> All,
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> The scope of the plain language SC is as follows:
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> "Provide clear and simple language in instructions, labels, navigational
> elements, and error messages which require a response to continue,...."
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> The technical content of a journal is out of scope for this SC.
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>
> Regards,
> Jim
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