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From: Edelényi Zsolt
Date: Mar 21, 2016 10:31PM

I am also looking forward you assets: Any other suggested resources on how
to format acronyms?

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2016-03-18 20:54 GMT+01:00 Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> Happy Weekend!
> I regularly teach a class on writing quality alternative text for
> documents, files, and web sites. Enhancing Reader Comprehension with Images
> and Graphics through Alternative Text for Better Accessibility (which you
> can see described at
> http://training.cit.nih.gov/class_details.aspx?cId=NIHCIT-AT173). The
> attendees are government employees and contractors. Naturally, a large
> part of our vocabulary is: ACRONYMS, some of which are spoken as words,
> others are spoken as letters (one organization was actually renamed so that
> it would not be spoken as a word but spelled out when spoken because of how
> it would have been pronounced).
> As such, a frequent question is about formatting acronyms for smooth
> reading by ScreenReaders, whether in the body of a document/website or
> within the alt-text. Does anyone have an any prepared guidance or a
> reference that I can provide as a summary or handout? Any articles
> published on the web, rather than reinventing the wheel? I will probably
> provide them with a copy of Paul Bohman's Why Don't Screen Readers Always
> Read What's on the Screen? Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols.
> Deque, January 20, 2014.
> http://www.deque.com/blog/dont-screen-readers-read-whats-screen-part-1-punctuation-typographic-symbols/
> .
> Any other suggested resources on how to format acronyms?
> Thanks/Cheers
> Gary
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