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Re: ABBR vs. just spelling it out.

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 22, 2006 10:20AM

On 3/22/06, Penny Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Shouldn't we be arguing that screen readers *should* be clever
> enough
> to know that something is tagged as an abbreviation and offer an aural
> cue that an explanation is available if required? Isn't it just as bad
> to expect a blind user to go back to the start of a page to find out
> what an abbreviation or acronym means as to read the whole thing in full
> every time?


Do you feel the same thing applies to definitions of words?

In other words, should there be markup that defines complex words each time
the word is used in a document?

Can you explain why you feel that acronyms and abbreviations are a content
type requiring specific markup but there is no requirement for complex words
to likewise be defined each time they appear? Which disabled populations
need acronym expansions but don't need word definitions?

--Kynn