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Re: Acronym/Abbreviation best practice

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From: Randi
Date: Mar 12, 2009 6:25PM

Oh gotcha. I see what you mean. I guess I didn't think of that since I
always start at the top of articles, so I'd catch the acronym.. Thank
you for the explanation.

On 3/12/09, Webb, KerryA < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> I've been trying to wrap my mind around this. I'm guessing you're
>> discussing something the actual programing which would repeat
>> descriptions of acronyms at every occurance? If I'm correct, why does
>> it need to be different for screenreader users thatn for sighted
>> people? For example, at the beginning of an artical about SAAVI it
>> might say, SAAVI, the Southern Arizona Association of the Visually
>> Impaired, began, lah blah. Then for the rest of the article, it would
>> just say SAAVI. So you're asking whether it should repeat the whole
>> description? Why? If I read the acronym at the beginning of an
>> oarticle, I'll either remember it or I won't. I guess being a recent
>> screenreader user, I don't find it necessry. My main thing is
>> navigation. I can usually decipher acronyms and such from context,
>> just like when there's typos when I'm chatting. Like I don't know what
>> ajax is but I assume its something to do with programming. If I want
>> to know more, I google, or ask. So I guess I'm just trying to say that
>> I use the screenreader the same way I surfed when I could see. Like
>> was mentioned, I can just go back to the beginning of the article.
>>
>
> As I understand it, a sighted reader will be able to scan through a page
> and will be able to quickly see where an acronym is first explained. A
> person using a screen reader might be quickly stepping through the links
> and may not know what SAAVI is if that appears in a link.
>
> Kerry
>
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