- From: Matthew Lye <mlye@trentu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 98 11:12:16 -0500
- To: "David Poehlman" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On 1/30/1998 10:53 AM, David Poehlman wrote: >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. My thinking is that a person familiar with the context in which 'RAM' is being used might find that really irritating. But I gather that you are thinking of a mark-up to browser to screen reader chain, rather than direct parsing of the mark-up by a text-to-speech browser. In that case I almost agree with you, except that for people reading the acronym visually, R space A space M would be less than optimal. Thus, I would suggest that the HTML 4.0 specification should instruct that browsers support optional acronym spacing.
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