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MonadIsPronad | 4 years ago

That's how I pronounce it in my head, too, but I still know what it means. All is well here.

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another-dave|4 years ago

It's an abbreviation for accessibility (because there's 11 letters between 'a' and 'y' in the word.)

Similar to i18n and l10n for internationalisation and localisation.

Interestingly unlike w3c, so it's not standing for aaaaaaaaaaay :)

Symbiote|4 years ago

My point was that it's inaccessible: "accessibility", "internationalization" and "localization" are clear to everyone, but "a11y", "i18n" and "l10n" are not at all obvious even to native English speakers, and especially those using screen readers.