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Accessibility
by SirensOfTitan 9y ago
Accessibility
- yellowapple 9y agoGot it. Kinda wish we'd stop with this whole "replace the middle of the word with a number" trend, but oh well.
- WaltPurvis 9y agoI agree, but u11y n7ms are here to stay.
- groby_b 9y agoI think that ship has sailed long ago. It dates back at least to the late 80s, when IBM(?) or X11(?) manuals referred to l10n and i18n tools. a11y seems to be slightly later. My memory whispers something about mid-90s. So, maybe not quite as much a "trend" as you assume :)
- yellowapple 9y agoI mean, back in the 80's we had limited RAM and maximum filename lengths and stuff, so maybe there was a practical benefit. By "trend", I more mean the trend of continuing to use these sorts of weird numeric contractions of words instead of just saying "localization" or "internationalization" or "accessibility" now that we have computers that can handle big words without breaking a sweat. I m2n, w2t is t2s, t1e o3n d2s of t2t m5es?
- groby_b 9y agoThere was a much bigger benefit. Try writing those words on a whiteboard, repeatedly, and see what that gets you :) You can argue till you're blue in the face, it's an established shorthand by now. And shorthand has a point - I don't see you writing "random access memory" instead of RAM either.
- yellowapple 9y agoOnce upon a time, RAM was called "core". We should go back to that. I digress... I'll concede it's easier to write on a whiteboard, but for other situations, it seems rather silly (and very different from the concept of an acronym or initialism).