Christopher M Kelly wrote: > As a "Person with a Disability", I prefer "Person/User/Whatever with a > Disability." People First Language.
I think if anything has come out of this, it's that on this list no one is going to be right when talking generally, because what's right for one person/culture is not right for the next. So I'm sure we will all be tolerant when someone says something that's not "politically correct" in our own culture, but might be in theirs. But when working on the web, we need to find out what is appropriate for the intended audience and then use it. Perhaps on an international or multicultural site, an explanation of why certain terminology was used might be appropriate given the strong objections some sectors can evidently have about what they are called. -- Vicki Berry DistinctiveWeb http://www.distinctiveweb.com.au ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
