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Re: Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 12, 2009 10:50AM

I think it depends on the document. I've worked on documents where every
second word was an acronym which makes understanding the content difficult
even for people without disabilities. In that case we ended up writing the
full words because it also added better understanding and comprehension to
the document. There were also some "one off" acronyms that I think the
author had created just because they could. :-)

I would favour a combination of both with a dependence on the complexity of
the document. I use a screen reader and sometimes do tend to forget what an
acronym stands for in unfamiliar subject areas.

Cheers, Karen