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Re: ABBR vs. just spelling it out.

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Mar 23, 2006 5:30AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:
> It sounds like the ideal (for screen readers) would be having 3 options:
>
> 1. read all titles from acronyms & abbr (and other?) elements.
>
> 2. Warn of items with titles (with a little 'bing' or something), with a
> specific key stroke/combo to read the expansion.
>
> 3. Read none.
>
> With the middle option being default, and roughly the same has having an
> underline that visual interfaces provide.
>
> Would that be possible/plausible?


That's what I had in mind too - an aural signal that a title/tooltip is
available. It really should to be possible!

Penny