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Re: Spell out "Q&A"

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 5, 2018 4:49PM

> Can anyone let me know (or confirm my instinct) if "Q&A" should be spelled out, Questions & Answers, in an H1 tag?

This isn't (or shouldn't be) an accessibility-specific question.
You'll want to consider the impact of this initialism for everyone. If
you think Q&A makes sense for your audience, then use it. If not,
spell it out. Just consider that the overhead of scanning and reading
"Questions & Answers" vs. "Q&A" or "Frequently Asked Questions" vs.
"FAQ" is pretty notable, and may be higher than correlating the
initialisms to their meaning.

The danger of considering content expansions only for users with
disabilities (perhaps due to how a screen reader might read these -
"FAQ", for example, can raise eyebrows when read quickly as a word by
a screen reader) is that this approach can quickly sway far the other
direction to overly verbose explanations that can increase overhead
and reading time for everyone.

Thanks,

Jared