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Ask HN: Do you know what "i18n" and "a11y" stand for?
I was kinda surprised most frontend devs I've asked know what it is, but don't know what the abbreviation stands for.
- severine 8y agoInternationalization and accesibility, of course. What are some good resources on i18n (and l10n)?
- gargravarr 8y agoFrom what I've been told, the reason for the abbreviation is that the number represents the number of characters between the two letters. The number is not pronounced. This is what initially confused the heck out of me - I knew what i18n was but didn't connect the dots. Only got raised when we were talking about Kubernetes being shorted to k8s :)
- bantunes 8y agoYeah, even when submitting this Ask HN I had to change i18n to "i18n" because it got expanded after I posted it in.
- dankohn1 8y agoThe word you're looking for is numeronym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym