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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 12:54PM

I do believe I wrote "If you absolutely need to", which I think is quite
clear. The method does work if you 'absolutely need to', but I don't see how
this qualifies as a ringing endorsement.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Sutton" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] how to get acronyms to not read as words in an alt
attribute


> Plus another million times "yes" this from me, a screen reader user.
>
> This seems to me yet another example of people worrying *far* too
> much about how a screen reader sounds. Users *do* have some
> responsibility in the accessibility equation.
>
> And there are *so* many other more important accessibility issues . . .
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> At 11:23 AM 5/8/2013, you wrote:
>> > 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
>>>>>>>
> > >