Comments on: Web accessibility acronym “starter pack” http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/web-accessibility-acronym-starter-pack/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:53:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Donna http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/web-accessibility-acronym-starter-pack/#comment-4940 Donna Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:45:36 +0000 http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/general/web-accessibility-acronym-starter-pack/#comment-4940 Heheh... I did debate putting the pronunciation bits in or not. :) I suspect the "wuh" used by W3C and the "wih" used by me are actually both approximations of a rather non-specific vowel sound for which English doesn't have an actual letter. If we were able to use the international phonetic alphabet to describe the pronunciation, we could be more specific. And "way" is what the people who actually work in the WAI call it - before I met any of them face to face, I thought of it as "wy", but they all call it "way". Difference between American and European influences I guess. Heheh… I did debate putting the pronunciation bits in or not. :)

I suspect the “wuh” used by W3C and the “wih” used by me are actually both approximations of a rather non-specific vowel sound for which English doesn’t have an actual letter. If we were able to use the international phonetic alphabet to describe the pronunciation, we could be more specific.

And “way” is what the people who actually work in the WAI call it - before I met any of them face to face, I thought of it as “wy”, but they all call it “way”. Difference between American and European influences I guess.

]]> By: JackP http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/web-accessibility-acronym-starter-pack/#comment-4817 JackP Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:39:33 +0000 http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/general/web-accessibility-acronym-starter-pack/#comment-4817 Surely WCAG is "wuh-cag" and WAI is "why" if you must pronounce them as one word? Or at least that's how I've always pronounced them - and the W3C certainly agree with me on the first point: WCAG - pronounced "wuh-cag" http://www.w3.org/2001/Talks/1219-WSAS-tech/slide2-1.html Surely WCAG is “wuh-cag” and WAI is “why” if you must pronounce them as one word? Or at least that’s how I’ve always pronounced them - and the W3C certainly agree with me on the first point:

WCAG - pronounced “wuh-cag”
http://www.w3.org/2001/Talks/1219-WSAS-tech/slide2-1.html

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