- From: Bill Mason <w3c@accessibleinter.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:07:14 -0700
- To: public-html@w3.org
Sandy Smith wrote: >> Further, web content accessibility guidelines do not, to my knowledge, >> make a distinction between needing to "explain" abbreviations that are >> "novel" versus all. >> > > Nor was I arguing that they did; I merely pointed out that it is > customary to have content creation guidelines in an organization that > require the callout of any acronym used for the first time in a > document, but rare to have the reverse. Not all semantic meaning is for > accessibility. My point was that since current best practices require the callout for both abbr and acronym be exposed to the user in some fashion or fashions, a use case such as yours predicated on only needing to call out acronym and not abbr doesn't really establish anything, in my view. -- Bill Mason Accessible Internet w3c@accessibleinter.net http://accessibleinter.net/
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