Rendering Casualty
Real. This entry is about something real, written from outside the CharliVerse.
A Rendering Casualty is the first of the four classes of information casualty in the Zero Information Casualty standard. The document arrived and was admitted, but its meaning was encoded in a way the observer could not decode: colour as information, an unlabelled image that carries content, a heading that is only large.
Its question is can they read it?, and its governing principle is the Single-Sense Rule. Lost structure counts too: if the fact the main content starts here reaches some readers and not others, that is a Rendering Casualty of the document's own organisation.
It is the concern of ZIC's first version. It at least announces itself: a confused reader knows something is wrong. Its silent cousin is the Reconstruction Casualty.
Behind the scenes
A real idea, from Zero Information Casualty v1.7, the design standard by Charli-Jo Tyrer and Claude, §1.8 and §1.15. This entry summarises it; the standard is the authority.