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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: May 10, 2017 8:27AM


This is further complicated by the fact that some speech synthesizers automatically make substitutions of their own -- is it Doctor or Drive, or Saint or Street, for example.

Dave



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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Graham Armfield
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] US v USA

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