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

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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: May 8, 2013 1:32PM

Olaf Drümmer wrote:

> 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.

This depends on the type of website. Any social media website,
for example, needs to grapple with dealing with the ways people
write text on social media, which often includes sections in all
caps as a way of providing emphasis or humor. Ultimately, there
is no way accessible technology will always be able to
distinguish between the hypothetical "Ohio Hirsute Agoraphobe
Institute" and somebody who has just greeted you, lolcat style,
with "OH HAI."

We do the best we can and hope people can figure it out from
context.

-Deborah Kaplan
Accessibility Team Co-Lead
Dreamwidth Studios, LLC