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Re: US v USA

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From: Graham Armfield
Date: May 9, 2017 9:32AM

This is complicated because some abbreviations are intended to be read out
as individual letters - acronyms like BBC - wheres some abbreviations are
supposed to read out as a word - example Gen. for General. Additionally,
some acronyms are commonly read out as if they were a word - examples UCAS,
CAMRA, NASA.

We no longer have the <acronym> tag, just the <abbr> element. So getting
screen readers to read them out correctly with just the <abbr> tag with the
title attribute is a real challenge.

Last time I tried the <abbr> tag with NVDA, it didn't give any audible
evidence that an abbreviation was present.

Regards
Graham Armfield