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

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 8, 2013 12:23PM

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

No, no, no!

> alt="G E D Verify"
> Or you might try alt="G. E. D. Verify"

For the love of all that's good and holy... please no!

> I believe this is a problem that should be solved by text-to-speech
> features in screen readers and other such tools, not by doing
> dances in markup or tagging.

Yes! This! A million times this!

That's all I have to say about this.

Jared