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Re: Keyboard accessibility of abbreviations

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Apr 16, 2015 6:09AM

On 16 April 2015 at 12:57, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> 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.
>

No it does not, which i why i suggested providing expansion in text the
first time, and followed saying that the abbr with title MAY be used in
subsequent intances on the page (useful to some, but not essential)

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SteveF
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