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From: Jim Homme
Date: Aug 24, 2016 7:33AM

Hi Jared,
Your last statement is correct. Furthermore, NVDA does not have a setting to change how it handles the abbrev and acronym tags, and I do not remember intentionally testing that tag with NVDA. JAWS has the setting that expands these tags off by default. I don't have Window-eyes installed right now, and don't know how it treats the tags. I would also need to intentionally test this with VoiceOver. I have an iPhone.

Thanks.

Jim


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Hidden text and mobile devices

> To give a concrete example: when we display a date in short format
> (Mon 26 Oct), we hide this element with aria-hidden, and add a sr-only
> text (Monday 26 October) for screen readers.

Why would "Mon 26 Oct" be any more confusing to a screen reader user than to a sighted user? If this text is not understandable as is, it should be expanded and made more useful for everyone. If it's not confusing visually, providing much more verbose and lengthy text just for screen reader users isn't creating an equitable experience.

Most screen readers have a setting for reading the expansion (title
attribute) for acronyms and abbreviations. I believe the default is to not read these on Windows screen readers.

Jared