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- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:01:09 +0000
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> 2011-12-02 20:01:09 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> This technique is frequently used.
IIRC I used @abbr for that a few years ago for some data tables on Yahoo!
Finance UK. The table headers included links to footnotes explaining the data.
I used @abbr to exclude the anchor text when screenreaders repeated the names
of the headers for a given cell. Unfortunately, that site has long since been
redesigned.
Can we collect some examples of current, helpful usage?
IIRC the last time this was discussed collected examples suggested popular
usage was to use @abbr to _expand_ abbreviated headers rather than contract
them (in calendar widgets, e.g. <th abbr="Monday">M</th>.
If @abbr is helping users, I'm not sure its usage matches that suggested by
HTML4.
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