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Re: ABBR vs. just spelling it out.

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Mar 23, 2006 3:50AM

Kynn Bartlett wrote:

> There's only disappointment because you're going out of your way to find
> it. You're misinterpreting what I've said and I've never once called for
> a focus on blind folks to the detriment of other groups.

Maybe not intentionally but that is certainly how your responses to this
thread have come over. I mentioned bothreading and hearing and you
narrowed it down to "blind folks".

> Developers should understand how the user agents function. I've heard
> one person (in this thread) say that the need for <abbr> is because
> blind people can't easily go back and find the expanded version.

If you are going to quote me at least get it right: what I actually said
was that expecting a blind person to go back to the beginning to find
the expanded version was equally as bad as making them hear it in full
(which referred to your suggestion of not abbreviating). Neither
situation is good.

Penny