Your email wasn't very clear. It lacked communicability. (I hope you are
smiling)
(Communication and comprehension) is not equal to (accessibility and
adaptability) in definition, nor in common use.
Based on the definitions and the limited explanation below, it seems
like a bad idea at best.
Regards,
Norman B. Robinson
-----Original Message-----
From: DCMI Accessibility Community
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liddy Nevile
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 6:07 AM
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Subject: a cat for the pigeons?
We have talked a lot about the extra term we need for accessability
and other adaptability issues. Someone recently suggested that the
qualities we are describing using the new term are to do with
communication and comprehension and so we could think of a term label
such as 'communicability' instead of adaptability. They were thinking
of the term being used in a range of contexts, as indeed we were too,
and pointed out that the purpose of the adaptation is to increase
communication...and that that applies equally when you are asking if
the content works on a phone screen as it does when you ask if it can
be used by someone with a screen reader ...
I would like to know what people think about that?
Liddy
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