Re: Contractions: good or not?

I am careful not to use contractions, especially in academic writing, because of the lack of clarity it could transmit. We also have to think about online translations.

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John

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From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Sent: 19 October 2021 13:19
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Contractions: good or not?

Maybe I'm being too facile here, but it does sound like there's a lot of
overthinking on this issue. Screen reader users are perfectly ok with
digesting real world content (at sometimes quite amazing reading
speeds). Let's not go down a "need to write content in a special way so
as not to confuse poor SR users" path...

P
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