- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:28:57 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Hi Jukka, Jens, At 15:02 18/10/2005, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jens Meiert wrote: > >>But screenreaders, for example, read the title, so doesn't it definitely >>make sense to allow e.g. "abbr" elements for abbreviations, addressed and >>"styled" via "speech" media type? > >No. It is generally unsound to assume that every abbreviation should be >expanded when read aloud. Jens's question was originally about the title element, and about abbreviations and acronyms inside title. Providing the expanded form of an abbreviation inside <title> seems acceptable to me. >You would surely not want to listen to a document that discusses XHTML so >that each and every occurrence of "XHTML" >is spelled out as "Extensible Hypertext Markup Language". I agree. The current XHTML 2 Working Draft says about <abbr>: "The title or full attributes may be used to provide the full or expanded form of the expression. Such an attribute should be repeated each time the abbreviation is defined in the document." [1] "Should" is not a strong requirement but I would like to see it softened anyhow. WCAG 1.0 requires that the expansion should be specified at the first occurrence of the abbreviation or acronym [2] and that is very reasonable. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527/mod-text.html#sec_9.1. [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#gl-abbreviated-and-foreign Regards, Christophe Strobbe -- 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 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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