RE: abbreviations

What Christophesays makes sense to me.

John 



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[mailto:public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Loretta Guarino
Reid
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:01 am
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Subject: FW: abbreviations



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> 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_abbrevia
> tion_imm 
> ediately_following_the_first_use_of_the_expanded_form_within_the_deliv
> ery_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_expansi
> on_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_expansio
> n_or_exp
> lanation_of_an_abbreviation,
> instead of the technique "Providing the abbreviation immediately 
> following...".
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
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