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

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From: Angela French
Date: May 8, 2013 12:12PM

>A sequence of uppercase characters (especially a short sequence) hardly ever is
>to be spoken out as a word (though this does also happen) but as a sequence of
>separately pronounced characters.
>
>Whether GED or USA or GB or UN or HTML or NVDA ...
>
>
>Olaf

I think I'll quit worrying about this one. I guess NVDA is just going to pronounce it as a word and not as individual letters.

So how does a screen reader read smiley face notation? :-)

Angela French