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

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 24, 2006 8:20AM

On 3/24/06, Tim Beadle < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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...


Excellent point.

It's all really a mess...and we need to be careful about placing too much
blame squarely on one group (e.g. screenreader developers). I think both
you and Karl are saying something similar.

--Kynn