Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
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@jonathanhogg is it really more arbitrary than any other abbreviation, though? If anything the uniqueness is a long term good, like https:// ended up being
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@codinghorror "Accessibility" is not a word that needs abbreviation. "Ah-eleven-why" is longer and harder to say, which is what a screen reader will do. The result is harder to read, since it requires mental translation or manual lookup. It serves only as a shibboleth and a lazy optimisation for those who hate typing and/or spelling. For such people, the correct tools have already been invented: macro expansions and continuous spell checking. My hatred of it is unbounded.
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@jonathanhogg I hear you and I could raise you fifty other even more worthy examples but I humbly submit this particular h5e has left the b4n