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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Fri, Mar 25 2016 7:51PM
Subject: Accessible University 3.0 has been released
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Greetings, WebAIM:
[with a few bccs -- with apologies for any duplication]

I noticed, via the Great Big List for CSUN 2016:

http://curbcut.net/events/csun16-disabilities-technology/

That Accessible University 3.0 has been released:
http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/AU/


I've often used version 2.0 in my trainings, so wanted to make sure
folks here knew of the update. Kudos to those involved in the new
release. Thank you for your efforts.

In my experience, this training tool works well, in university settings
-- meet people where they are.

Best,
Jennifer

From: L Snider
Date: Sat, Mar 26 2016 9:15AM
Subject: Re: Accessible University 3.0 has been released
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Hi Jennifer,

Great to know, thanks!

Cheers

Lisa



On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Jennifer Sutton < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> Greetings, WebAIM:
> [with a few bccs -- with apologies for any duplication]
>
> I noticed, via the Great Big List for CSUN 2016:
>
> http://curbcut.net/events/csun16-disabilities-technology/
>
> That Accessible University 3.0 has been released:
> http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/AU/
>
>
> I've often used version 2.0 in my trainings, so wanted to make sure folks
> here knew of the update. Kudos to those involved in the new release. Thank
> you for your efforts.
>
> In my experience, this training tool works well, in university settings --
> meet people where they are.
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
>
>

From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Mon, Mar 28 2016 10:18AM
Subject: Re: Accessible University 3.0 has been released
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I love the Accessible University and the new version is great. I have one question: is the ABBR tag best practice? In NVDA, the expanded abbreviation will be reported if you report the current navigator object (desktop NVDA+numpad5). And in JAWS I believe there's a setting to read them. I don't know how well known those features are.


Joseph

From: Marc Solomon
Date: Mon, Mar 28 2016 12:47PM
Subject: Re: Accessible University 3.0 has been released
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Using <abbr> is one of the recommended techniques (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H28.html) for passing WCAG 3.1.4 - Abbreviations. Keep in mind this success criteria falls under AAA compliance so it might be harder to justify if the website owner is only looking to comply with WCAG AA. But as a visual user, I certainly appreciate when authors use the <abbr> for less commonly used acronyms as I can display the element's title attribute on mouse hover in most popular browsers.

Best,
Marc