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RE: State names - use abbreviations or spell out?
From: Jim Allan
Date: Apr 27, 2005 8:39AM
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semantics aside,
JAWS and HPR do a repair for the <abbr> and <acronym> elements to allow them
be read/spoken, based on user configuration, even though IE does not
recognize <acronym>.
JAWS can/must (depending on default setting which seem to change with each
version) be configured to read/speak either <abbr> or <acronym> or both.
For HPR the setting is both or neither.
Anyone know about WindowEyes or SuperNova/HAL?
Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] State names - use abbreviations or spell out?
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>>
>>(If I heard a postal address spoken, with "VA" read as "Virginia", I would
>>not know that I need to write "VA" for "Virginia". Maybe I would know that
>>US postal address should contain certain conventional abbreviations, or
>>codes, of state names rather than names themselves, and maybe I could
>>find a reference on them. But things are easier when I need not know.)
>>
>>
>>
When you put it that way it makes sense..."VA" make equal sense (or not)
when one sees it or hears it (in the proper context.)
Thanks,
Don
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Don Hinshaw
Hinshaw Design Group
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