Some industries have a long standing practice of using a manual of style. Journalists in the United States use the Associated Press Stylebook. Literary and academic book publishers in the US use the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS). The CMOS is their definitive guide for complying to the rules of grammar. The Elements of Style … Read more » The Missing Website Style Manual

If you’ve been on the web for a while, you may have seen words like a11y, i18n, and l10n used. These are called numeronyms. A numeronym is a number-based word, a type of abbreviation. The numeronyms a11y, i18n, and l10n represent the words accessibility, internationalization, and localization respectively. They are used when space is limited … Read more » What is a Numeronym?

When accessibility comes up, people talk about “alt tags”. There is no ‘alt tag’. We need to use the right words.