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Accessibility and acronyms

Feb 17, 2023

This is embarrassing to admit. I had no idea why it was called a11y. Turns out 

Accessibility (often abbreviated to A11y — as in, "a", then 11 characters, and then "y")

Then my coworker pointed out others:

l10n: localisation
i18n: internationalisation

I can only assume people did this because they were annoyed in having to run auto correct on their spelling