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

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From: Greg Gamble
Date: May 8, 2013 2:07PM

In regards to acronyms ... In writing a paper I would do something like this: "The General Educational Development (GED) process ... " , I would then use the acronym of GED without any other explanation of what it is, since it has already been defined.

When using an < abbr > tag would it need to be used on all instances of the acronym, or as the example I used for a print type page, just on the first instance? Seems to me it would get a little annoying having to listen to or skip over each description.


Greg Gamble
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