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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 9, 2017 8:12AM

Sadly,no, they do not do this properly.
I have fild an issue with VFO re Jaws, I need to check if someone has with NVDA.

A screen reader should:

* Always spell out any word inside an <abbr> tag.
* If the full term is available in the tag (viaits title attribute),
the screen reader should make the user aware of it and offer
configuration settings to read the expanded form along with or instead
of the abbreviated form.


On 5/9/17, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It would be very helpful if our assistive technology manufacturers would
> implement the <ABBR> tag.
> Do any of our screen readers recognize it? From Alon F's test below, NVDA
> doesn't.
> --Bevi Chagnon
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