- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:00:33 -0800
- To: "public-wcag-teamb@w3.org" <public-wcag-teamb@w3.org>
------ Forwarded Message > From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> > Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:52:03 +0100 > To: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com> > Subject: Re: abbreviations > > Hello Loretta, > > At 00:53 4/02/2006, you wrote: > <blockquote> > Christophe, in the technique you contributed for providing an expanded form > of abbreviations, you point out that there are abbreviations like Ms. for > which there are no expansions. What should we recommend in that situation? > Do we need to include an exception in this technique for such abbreviations? > > http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_abbreviation_imm > ediately_following_the_first_use_of_the_expanded_form_within_the_delivery_unit > </blockquote> > > Abbreviations without expansions are rare (at least in the languages I > know). How you deal with them depends on whether they are acronyms or > abbreviations (in the strict sense of the word) - at least that's my take > on it. > * For acronyms without an expansion (for example, because the original > expansion has been rejected by the organisation that it refers to), an > explanation is more appropriate, and we already have a technique for this > (http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_expansion_or_ex > planation_of_an_abbreviation). > Examples: SIL (which used to mean Summer Institute of Linguistics, but is > now a name in its own right - see http://www.sil.org/sil/history.htm), IMS > (which used to mean Instructional Management Systems, but is now a name in > its own right). > * For an abbreviation that has no expansion, we might say that the success > criterion does not apply. Examples: Ms, OK. (You might then ask if these > examples are actually abbreviations. Since WCAG is for web developers, not > linguists, and these examples are probably perceived as abbreviations, it's > OK to say that they are abbreviations.) This comment could also be added to > http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_expansion_or_exp > lanation_of_an_abbreviation, > instead of the technique "Providing the abbreviation immediately > following...". > > Regards, > > Christophe > > > -- > Christophe Strobbe > K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on > Document Architectures > Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM > tel: +32 16 32 85 51 > tel mobile: +32 473 97 70 25 > fax: +32 16 32 85 39 > http://www.docarch.be/ > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > ------ End of Forwarded Message
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