Re: [HIG] conforming to the GDP word list

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> The audience of the HCI guidelines is the programmers; therefore and
for
> example even though "access key" is a better description than
"mnemonic"
> for the underlined letter in a widget label and even though calling
that
> a mnemonic is wholesale abuse of the language, that is what I'm going
to
> call it in the glossary and that is to what every synonym for that
will 
> point.

I think we should use the word that we want to appear in the interface
whenever possible. Clearly we will have some trade jargon necessary to
achieve precise communication. But in most cases I see no advantages to
using a word we won't be presenting to the user when the "user word"
will do just as well.

-seth