Consistency: use "touchscreen" rather than "touch screen" (normative)#5038
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"Touch screen" is not even incorrect, so I don't know how we would consider this an editorial (or even important) change to make. |
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@awkawk for consistency within WCAG itself (see non-normative companion too #5037) and other W3C specs like https://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents4/ |
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to put it in raw numbers...uses in WCAG (the spec, understanding, techniques, etc):
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Given the numbers @patrickhlauke presents, it makes a lot of sense to me to make this change (and try and make it in the other places too). |
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…ive) (#5037) single word is more common in the wild, and used more often in WCAG and its documentation than the two-word variant noticed as part of work on #4843 there is also a single instance in the normative definition for single pointer. will file a separate editorial erratum PR for that (see #5038)
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single word is more common in the wild, and used more often in WCAG and its documentation than the two-word variant
noticed as part of work on #4843
this is the normative companion PR to #5037