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Tiny Accessibility and Inclusion Tip 

When using an acronym in
public posting or presentations,
try to include the full meaning the first time you use it. Especially if it is an acronym specific to a field or less common internet slang.

For example, ITPIW (In This Post I Will) talk about how acronyms can restrict your audience and make your content inaccessible to new people.

ITPIW explain how using acronyms can make your content especially inaccessible to people who are not native speaker of this language, people new to the field, people from different cultures, etc.

It is so easy to do and only explaining the acronym once at the beginning solves this problem entirely! ✨

Apr 13, 2024 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadJulien  🔭Apr 13, 2024

@Em0nM4stodon ☝️ This!!!

So true, especially in my work environment where we have so many acronyms and where the same acronym can mean different things in different parts or contexts of the business. When reviewing presentations from people I mentor, I always ask them whether they believe the acronyms they use will be obvious to their target audience. Most of the time they are not and they have to introduce their meaning before re-using them.

Show threadJulien  🔭Apr 13, 2024
@Em0nM4stodon I've seen cases where presenters and their audience had different meanings for an acronym and neither were aware of it, leading to a weird misunderstanding situation.
Show threadguentherApr 13, 2024
@Em0nM4stodon I like that you put the acronym first and the long form after. Sometimes the acronym is more widely known, and reading the long version first can be briefly confusing. For example, I won't have any idea what a "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Associated Protein" is, but I have heard of CRISPR-Cas.
Show threadThe misty bellatrix 🌺💚💜Apr 27, 2024
@Em0nM4stodon that isn't standard procedure?? Who just drops acronyms without context??