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Re: WCAG 2 draft and abbreviations

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From: smithj7
Date: Aug 22, 2007 5:40PM

Great question.

We have been discussing the same issue at our Florida standards
meetings. In general, using our current but older standards (2003), we
always follow the print version e.g. Individual Employment Plan (IEP)
and then use IEP there after. For typical pages I get, if this format
wasn't followed, I can quickly fix to follow this standard.

However, I also put minutes up on the website. Minutes can't be changed.
There were many abbreviations and/or acroynms in the minutes so I used
the the acroymn tag for all these mysterious letters, after playing
detective for half. I put them in all places. I have done this for
about 2 years (or eight to ten minutes). Two people emailed the first
time they saw them. One liked it, the other was just curious why they
were there. He noted that "everyone" knew what those mysterious letters
meant. I told him the DOE rule for abbreviations and my inablity to
change the minutes and he agreed that this was a good way to meet my
requirements.

Note: I used the acroynm because about 65 percent of our customers are
using IE6. The purpose being two-fold being my website standards and
more important that users know what letter like LOFA mean in the
minutes.