Re: Acronyms in Capabilities: How religious are we?

I support Lionel's recommendation.

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Mike Paciello
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM Lionel Wolberger <
lionel.wolberger@levelaccess.com> wrote:

> My two cents:
> *Yes, expand every **single** one. *
> *Justification:* We will have readers who are less familiar.
>
> *To support the abstract being an exec summary: *Do not expand in the
> Abstract. Consider any occurrence after the abstract to be “the first
> occurrence”.
>
> *From: *Janina Sajka <janina@a11y.nyc>
> *Date: *Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 11:54
> *To: *Accessibility at the Edge <public-a11yedge@w3.org>
> *Cc: *Jason Taylor <jason@usablenet.com>, Mike Paciello <
> michael.paciello@audioeye.com>, Lionel Wolberger <lionel@userway.org>
> *Subject: *Acronyms in Capabilities: How religious are we?
>
> Colleagues:
>
> The rule says that the first use of an acronym should be expanded. The
> usual approach is the <abbr>.
>
> But, how thorough should we be in this?
>
> The first three in our document are WCAG, HTML, and CSS, and they occur in
> the Abstract.
>
> The next three are W3C, URL, and URI occuring in our diagram text.
>
> Should we really spell out hyper-text markup language and cascading
> style sheets?
>
> And similarly World Wide Web Consortium?
>
> Guidance, please!
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
> Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka
>
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures     http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/
>
>

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