Re: [style guide] Thoughts on approach

Have we thought about what they call "free standard style guides" for the
basis of the "style" part?  That might be eay, like Eric said...

https://www.thoughtco.com/top-free-online-style-guides-in-english-1688760

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> Thanks for getting this going, Sharron!
>
> I think that we want this Style Guide to be as short and easy-to-consume
> as feasible. If so, we'll want to be thoughtful about what we include and
> what not to clutter it with. For example, maybe we don't need to include
> obvious things, and certainly we don't want to recreate general writing
> best practices.
>
> An example of a questionable item is: write out abbreviations on first
> reference. I'll start a separate thread on that point specifically...
>
> Another point is that we want this Style Guide to be for all of the WAI
> website, and for Understanding WCAG at least. For some aspects, we might
> have different styles for different types of resources/documents/pages.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Shawn
>
>
> On 6/30/2017 10:14 AM, Sharron Rush wrote:
>
>> I am thinking about how this will be presented and would like to suggest
>> this format.  Sarah and Shawn, if you agree I will format the wiki to
>> reflect these sections:
>>
>> *Introduction* – What the guide is meant to do, how it will make our job
>> easier, and how to use it.*
>>
>> Voice* – Can we make a statement about what we want the quality of the
>> voice to be? I am thinking about some of the adjectives we used to describe
>> how we wanted the web site to be.  Some words that will suggest rhythm, and
>> maybe a list of voice qualities to avoid. Each statement could then be
>> explained it in more detail and examples provided for how to put it into
>> practice*.
>>
>> Tone* – This seems a bit trickier and might entail how to use the voice
>> we agree on with different tones. There will be variation depending on
>> different scenarios, do you agree?  This may be a place to reference our
>> personas.
>>
>> *Style* – After introducing the guide and setting voice and tone, that's
>> when I think we get into the style guide items that Shawn and Annabelle
>> started and Sarah expanded on.
>>
>> *Specialist language* – Since this is a specialized filed, should we
>> include any guidance on how to reference disability, W3C process,
>> referencing materials or anything else that is super-specialized for our
>> environment?
>>
>> Throughout I strongly believe that we should use as many examples as
>> possible and be specific to our own stuff, as the first set of guides has
>> done. Is this an approach we can agree on? or have I overlooked or
>> misunderstood any of it? This is new to me so don't hesitate to let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sharron
>>
>> --
>> Sharron Rush | Executive Director | Knowbility.org | @knowbility
>> /Equal access to technology for people with disabilities/
>>
>
>


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Sharron Rush | Executive Director | Knowbility.org | @knowbility
*Equal access to technology for people with disabilities*