The ironic inaccessibility of a11y

This resonated with me:

Its ironic to me that the numeronym a11y lacks accessibility: its not immediately decipherable by humans who arent in the club; and, in some fonts, its visually indistinguishable from the word ally (with lowercase Ls), which can foil searches for clarity.

— Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) November 5, 2018

Because I bet it took me a year after seeing that acronym ("numeronym", I guess) for the first time to know that was just a stand-in for the …

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