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From: Cohen, Lisa A.
Date: Mon, May 20 2002 12:06PM
Subject: Acronym and Abbrev tags
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In the HTML specification for the acronym and abbrev elements, it says:
"When necessary, authors should use style sheets to s
From: iris
Date: Tue, May 21 2002 8:47AM
Subject: Re: Acronym and Abbrev tags
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--- "Cohen, Lisa A." < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:
> In the HTML specification for the acronym and abbrev
> elements, it says:
> "When necessary, authors should use style sheets to
> specify the
> pronunciation of an abbreviated form."
what? where does it say that? i can't find that
anywhere. what i found is:
"Mark up abbreviations and acronyms with ABBR and
ACRONYM and use "title" to indicate the expansion:..."
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#text-abbr
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From: Sam Buchanan
Date: Tue, May 21 2002 9:43AM
Subject: Re: Acronym and Abbrev tags
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Cohen, Lisa A. wrote:
> In the HTML specification for the acronym and abbrev elements, it says:
> "When necessary, authors should use style sheets to specify the
> pronunciation of an abbreviated form."
> Does anyone know how to do this? Also, does Jaws or any other AT
> recognize the appropriate rendering instructions in CSS?
CSS2 has aural style sheets:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html
In particular, you may be interested in speak:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html#propdef-speak
For example:
<abbr style="speak: spell-out" title="World Wide Web">WWW</abbr>
I have no idea what support is like.
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