• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    To expand on this: It’s common practice in IT/dev/devops to shorten things by first letter - number of letters in between - last letter

    So you get things like i18n - internationalization, l10n - localization and k8s - kubernetes. Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz also seem to think they’re important enough that people should call them a16z. Which apparently some people do.

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      I think the best one is a11y (accessibility) because it looks like ally so it’s easier to remember