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Re: Accessible University 3.0 has been released

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From: Marc Solomon
Date: Mar 28, 2016 12:47PM

Using <abbr> is one of the recommended techniques (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H28.html) for passing WCAG 3.1.4 - Abbreviations. Keep in mind this success criteria falls under AAA compliance so it might be harder to justify if the website owner is only looking to comply with WCAG AA. But as a visual user, I certainly appreciate when authors use the <abbr> for less commonly used acronyms as I can display the element's title attribute on mouse hover in most popular browsers.

Best,
Marc

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Joseph Sherman
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible University 3.0 has been released

I love the Accessible University and the new version is great. I have one question: is the ABBR tag best practice? In NVDA, the expanded abbreviation will be reported if you report the current navigator object (desktop NVDA+numpad5). And in JAWS I believe there's a setting to read them. I don't know how well known those features are.


Joseph

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jennifer Sutton
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 9:51 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List; WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible University 3.0 has been released

Greetings, WebAIM:
[with a few bccs -- with apologies for any duplication]

I noticed, via the Great Big List for CSUN 2016:

http://curbcut.net/events/csun16-disabilities-technology/

That Accessible University 3.0 has been released:
http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/AU/


I've often used version 2.0 in my trainings, so wanted to make sure folks here knew of the update. Kudos to those involved in the new release. Thank you for your efforts.

In my experience, this training tool works well, in university settings
-- meet people where they are.

Best,
Jennifer