Updates

Added guidance on how to use contractions properly. See Contractions.

Added guidelines on how to write content that is inclusive of all genders. See Gender-inclusive communication.

Added guidelines on anti-racist language. See Anti-racist language.

Added guidelines on collective noun usage. See Collective nouns.

Changed guidelines for citing multiple corroborating sources such that each corroborating source is cited with its own pair of square brackets. This aligns with IEEE style guidelines and helps keep it clear how many corroborating sources there are. See Citations.

Added another use case for square brackets: spelling mistakes can be corrected via square brackets. See Square brackets.

Clarified guidelines on ommitting text from block quotes for shortform content. See Ellipses.

Added guidelines for inserting text with square brackets. See Square brackets.

Added guidelines for using question marks. See Question marks.

Added guidelines for using exclamation points. See Exclamation points.

Added emoji rendering for correct and incorrect examples courtesy of AsciiDoctor emoji extension.

Merged values and services documentation with brand voice and tone documentation. See Voice, Tone, and Values.

Added search functionality to the site courtesy of Antora Lunr extension.

Restructured guidelines on mood of verbs for clarity. See Mood of verbs.

Added documentation of Paraqlet’s services. See Services.

Added accessible font size guidelines. See Content visibility.

Added guidelines on abbreviations, including honorific usage. See Abbreviations.

Added guidelines on suffixes, including post-nominal letters and generational suffixes. See Suffixes.

Added guidelines on using different verb tenses. See Verb tense.

Added guidance for URLs in social media content. See URLs.

Clarified guidelines that apply to both ordered and unordered lists, as well as how to structure the items of an unordered list. See Lists and Unordered lists.

Added more documentation for accessibility and inclusion. See the following:

Expanded documentation for media attributions to account for media created by more than one creator. See Proper attributions for media.

For clarity, made Documenting UI interactions its own section separate from Bold text in Formatting and Content. See Documenting UI interactions.

Added guidelines for Responsive web design.

Expanded guidelines for Accessibility in audio-visual content.

Added guidance on captions for images and graphics embedded into web content. See Captions for visual content.

Added citation guidelines. See Citations.

Added guidance on using periods. See Periods.

Clarified language around logo misuse. See Logo treatment.

Added guidance on proper attributions for visual content. See Proper attributions for media.

Added examples for colon usage. See Colons.

For clarity, reformatted Title case section.

Added guidance on using prepositions and parentheses, and examples for hyphen and slash usage. See the following under Grammar and Mechanics:

Added ASCII art and contrast guidelines. See the following under Accessibility and Inclusion:

Added examples of logo misuse. See Logo treatment.

Added guidance on UI microcopy. See Title case.