- From: <chagnon@pubcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:35:17 -0400
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Agree with Patrick's comments below: writing for clarity and plain language is a valid issue, but this goes beyond what's reasonable. I many areas of writing, eliminating contractions creates stilted. Let's not over-engineer the guidelines and standards. —Bevi — — — Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | Chagnon@PubCom.com — — — PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing consulting • training • development • design • sec. 508 services Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes — — — Latest blog-newsletter – Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text -----Original Message----- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:19 AM To: 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 -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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