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Re: WCAG 2 draft and abbreviations

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From: smithj7
Date: Aug 23, 2007 5:20PM

Thanks for the great comments. Perhaps providing a combination of these
techniques is the way to go. I could start a glossary of terms,
abbreviations, and acroynms adding to them as new documents arrive and
talk to content folks once it is up to add to it. I will continue with
the print version (even if it is dismissed as our standard), and then I
easily do the semantic changes using a search and replace feature for
both acroynms and abbrebiations using the correct term. Then when
semantic mark up becomes available to speech users that will be
available.

I expectionally like the idea of annonating the minutes for acroynms or
abbreviations. I actually did this when one of the minutes came with a
policy indicating changes using colors (committee of blind vendors - low
vision user). So I wrote notations of additions for speech user and
provided notation at beginning of minutes that I was adding such and
such for deleted text and such and such for added text. I hadn't
thought of doing the same for the acroynms and abbreviations. Thanks
again!