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Re: WCAG 2 draft and abbreviations

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Jun 5, 2007 9:50AM

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> It's time to stop trying to make sense of
> this nonsense.

I'm afraid I glazed over when trying to follow the HTML5 / WAI arguments
on abbreviations, so please forgive my intentional naivety.

Given that the user requirement is for adding explanatory text, could we
not just have an element for both acronym & abbreviations (and more?)
which takes a title attribute?

<abbr> seems to be the more generic, and given recent support, now seems
to be a good time to put down in WCAG2 techniques (and possibly HTML5):
Just use <abbr title="explanation">text</abbr>

Is there need for more than one element?

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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Alastair Campbell | Director of User Experience

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