WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Adding abbreviations in Acrobat 8

for

From: John E. Brandt
Date: Apr 23, 2008 3:40PM

Thank you, Keith for saying this. I have had the same experience with Adobe
Acrobat Professional. I wrote about my experiences in some articles about
accessible documents http://www.mainecite.org/awd/accdocs/article3.html

And, Dan...I think you are safe if you use the procedure of
describing/detailing in the text what the abbreviation means when it is
first used in the document. For example, "Mary was working with a team of
teachers implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) techniques..." This is
one of the methods allowed by WGAG 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/G97.html . This is also
the method used in Chicago Manual of Style and American Psychological
Association (APA) style Publication Manual. The exception are with commonly
used abbreviations and acronyms (e.g., IBM, AIDS).

~j

John E. Brandt
Augusta, Maine USA
www.jebswebs.com