Re: Should we remove ACRONYM examples and discussion ( LC-2854)

 Dear David MacDonald ,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has reviewed the
comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Techniques
for WCAG 2.0 published on 5 Sep 2013. Thank you for having taken the time
to review the document and to send us comments!

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 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/E1VLvRD-0004SL-Ry@stuart.w3.org
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20130905/


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Your comment on H28: Providing definitions for abbreviations by using the
abbr and acronym...:
> Name: David MacDonald
> Email: david100@sympatico.ca
> Affiliation: WCAG TEAM
> Document: TD
> Item Number: H28
> Part of Item: Examples
> Comment Type: general comment
> Summary of Issue: Should we remove ACRONYM examples and discussion
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> Wondering if we should be preparing for HTML 5 by changing the ACRONYM
> examples, it is valid in earlier versions of HTML5 but I think it is
> confusing to leave it in, given that our techniques are usually reserved
> for things we think are good to do, with the goal of increasing clarity,
> rather than confusion
> 
> Proposed Change:
> Change examples 3 and 4 to use ABBR instead of ACRONYM, and remove
> references to acronym.


Working Group Resolution (LC-2854):
Thank you for your comment.  The description in H28 already mentions that
the acronym element is being removed in versions of HTML after HTML4.  We
will change examples 3 and 4 to use only the abbr element and will modify
the technique title accordingly. 

@@ New title: H28: Providing definitions for abbreviations by using the
abbr element
@@ Description: Change to "by using the abbr element"
@@ Examples: Change examples 3 and 4 to use only abbr and change titles.
"Using the abbr element to expand an acronym" and "Using the abbr element
to expand an initialism"

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Received on Tuesday, 3 June 2014 13:58:20 UTC