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Re: Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 16, 2015 5:57AM

But does the abbr element work for keyboard only users?
How does it work visually?
If you put the abbreviation with a title, you would only see it with
either a screen reader that supports it, or if you hover over the term
with the mouse.
Basically, how does using the abbr element help over using just the
full phrase the first time around in the text, then using its
abbreviation .. such as
"Welcome to the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)"
...
"The role of the CIA is to ..."
vs.
"Welcome to the website of the <abbr>CIA</abbr> Central Intelligence Agency"
...
"The role of the <abbr title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</abbr> is to ...

If I were a keyboard only user, would the second markup help me
quickly locate the meaning of the abbreviation, more quickly than just
having spelled the phrase out in text?
I see the intent of the element, I guess it is all about browser
implementation/support.
Thanks
-Birkir




On 4/16/15, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> On 16 April 2015 at 11:29, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have suggestions for improvement?
>
>
> The first time an uncommon abbreviation is used in a page provide the
> expansion:
>
> example:
> <abbr>W3C</abbr> (World Wide Web Consortium)
>
>
> subsequent instances may include the expanded form in the title
> <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr>
>
> This means it will be available to all by default, without any need for
> complicated solutions.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
> > > > >


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