- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@contenu.nu>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 10:28:52 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@W3.org
> I think "natural language" is the proper term for what we want. > >Here are three definitions What you appear to mean is "'Natural language' is the term understood by computer geeks, and my biases toward that jargon term are backed up by three dictionary definitions. If real people in the real world don't understand the term, they can damn well look it up. *I* understand it and *I* looked it up. Why can't they?" Our entire goal is to make a Guidelines document that everyone, even neophytes, can understand. Please don't draw us down the intractable rabbit hole of arguing that certain jargon terms are unavoidable. Certain of them are, like "captions" (not the same as subtitles) and "audio descriptions" (not the same as auditory descriptions or even play-by-play <http://www.joeclark.org/livead.html>). "Natural language" is *avoidable* jargon. So let's avoid it. Also, nice job appending three previous messages. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Accessibility articles, resources, and critiques: <http://joeclark.org/access/>
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