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Re: FW: HTML - <abbr> and <acronym> settings

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Mar 24, 2006 2:10AM

On 23/03/06, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Don't get me wrong. I think they should have gotten it right the first time.
> But since that's obviously not the case, we shouldn't expect someone to snap
> their fingers and it'll get fixed. Their job is to make money. If the
> diversion funds & manpower doesn't add to the bottom line, it is
> understandable that they'd be disinclined to be in a hurry for new features
> & bug fixes.

The collective authors of the web (all n 100s of millions of us)
"should have gotten it right first time". I suspect that the current
brokenness of the major screen readers is a largely a function of the
brokenness of many of the web sites out there. They have to jump
through hoops to extract meaning from sites where it's not evident.
The recent trend towards meaningful, semantic HTML doesn't help one
jot if the AT doesn't understand...

Tim