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RE: ABBR vs. just spelling it out.

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Mar 23, 2006 5:50AM

John Foliot wrote:
> It *should* be, but it appears that currently it is not. This would
> certainly be a benefit, but would require some work by the
> good folk at Freedom Scientific.

Certainly, I just wanted to run it past a few people first, if anyone is
going to spot problems on this type of thing it will be this list :-)
I'm guessing from the quick support that this is considered appropriate
behaviour for a screen reader?

Also, does it generalise well to other elements with titles, or is it
best kept to acronym and abbr elements?

> Perhaps a concerted campaign from both users and
> developers for them to consider this?

I have a friend on the beta program, so I have an inside ear there.
Except that I think my friend used up their "get HTML standards
supported" quota on this cycle with some stuff on complex tables ;)

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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