@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

@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.

@jonathanhogg @codinghorror or even a-elf-y-psi-lon…

@jonathanhogg @codinghorror also, this whole count the number of letters is stupid, who knows offhand how long which word is…