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Grammatical error in "Understandable"? #460
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I agree that "interfaces" would be better. Of course, this is in the normative text, so we will need to process this as an editorial errata.
Reacted by Mike GowerOkay with this being an editorial errata, but “user interface” appears 15 times in WCAG proper, “user interfaces” appears 0 times. So if we are making a change, I recommend keeping “interface” singular. (For the plural, WCAG uses “user interface components”.)
The Principle could also be: “Information and the operation of user interface components must be understandable” -- but that gets away from the Principles (and Guidelines) being plain language.
- +1 to Bruce. Adding a single preposition ("the") to the normative text is probably the better solution in this case, even if it reads a little more awkwardly than the pluralization of "interfaces". However I can live with either. JF…On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM bruce-usab ***@***.***> wrote: Okay with this being an editorial errata, but “user interface” appears 15 times in WCAG proper, “user interfaces” appears 0 times. So if we are making a change, I recommend keeping interface singular. (For the plural, WCAG uses “user interface components”. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#460 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABK-c3sDve9PoFMzCRrC1M_gVSaGs5rjks5uek_KgaJpZM4WJilu> .-- *John Foliot* | Principal Accessibility Strategist Deque Systems - Accessibility for Good deque.com
The correct text for the Understanding principle is "Information and operation of the user interface must be understandable".
The description for the Understandable principle is:
It seems that user interface should either be plural, or have some form of preposition before it (like the). For example:
Or:
Using the plural seems like the better option to me.