- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:53:50 -0500 (EST)
- To: Matthew Lye <mlye@trentu.ca>
- cc: "Pawson, David" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Ram might not be a good example, but what we need have done is to have the acroneem passed as r a m. this would give a screenreader the opportunity to spell it out and avoide misconceptions as to what it is based on what it sounds like. On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Matthew Lye wrote: > On 1/30/1998 08:43 AM, Pawson, David wrote: > > >There are probably better examples in esoteric fields full of jargon. > ><acronym>IT</acronym> is just such a field. Someone not > >familiar with the field may not recognise <acronym>RAM</acronym> > >as a computer term and interpret as a sheepish item. > > Apologies, but this strikes me as a really neat problem. For many > acronyms a simple check of the phonemics (?) can determine whether it > should be parsed as a word or as 'letter-spelling'. Other acronyms may > require interpretation once or always: 'RAM', for instance, might be > read as 'Random Access Memory' the first time [with a little client-level > semantic sugaring: "...Random Access Memory, known as RAM,...". I > assume the tag supports a reference to the full word? > > Matt. > > Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 poehlman@clark.net ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman
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