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Re: State names - use abbreviations or spell out?

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From: Michael Moore
Date: Apr 29, 2005 10:04AM


That would be really great except that aural styles are unsupported most if not all platforms and have been deprecated.

Mike

Randy Pearson wrote:

> Returning to the original question, my (novice) understanding was that the
> aural style
>
> speak: spell-out;
>
> could be used to assist in this situation to advise screen readers *not* to
> "just say vah" below. This seems to make sense; however I don't know if the
> modern crop of readers honor that CSS2 rule.
>
> <acronym style="speak: spell-out;" title="Virginia">VA</acronym>