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Re: how to get acronyms to not read as words in an alt attribute

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 8, 2013 11:49AM

The . is read as dot.

If you absolutely need to break it out, you can simply use offscreen text
like so:

G<span class="offscreen">&nbsp;</span>E<span
class="offscreen">&nbsp;</span>D

Visually it will look the same, but will be announced as individual letters
for screen reader users.