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It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.

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Probably anorthography: a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.

If you don't already know, you use a search engine to find out.

(Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.)

That doesn’t change the fact that it is inaccessible for no gain.

It’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?

False economy. The trade-off between "saving some syllables" and the concomitant problems it causes is not worth it.

To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.

Communication requires thought and input from both sides - if I use a numeric abbreviation with someone who is unfamiliar with it, I am communicating badly.

I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other - TLAs (three letter acronyms) can also be as impenetrable.

> To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.

My first guess would have been a username for somebody named Elliot. Given that it occurred in this thread, probably not a correct guess.

I always thought you'd still pronounce it as the original word. How do you pronounce it? Aeleveny?

Yep - pretty-much, aye-el-ev-en-why although I may have miscounted the syllables in eleven in my parent post.

It's most pronounced in aye-ate-een-en, internationalization is a word I find myself stumbling when saying in full.

I have never heard any of those pronounciations.

What?!?! I have never heard anyone pronounce these terms in such a ludicrous fashion, and it’s not because I don’t have exposure I do a fair amount of work in this space.

Or the writer could keep their writing more accessible by using the word accessibility, understood by hundreds of millions of people, instead of some meme term understood by maybe thousands.

>(Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.)

ally?

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