- From: Brian Suda <brian.suda@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:05:34 +0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
On 3/25/07, Noah Slater <nslater@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Fourth, screen readers should for reading the titles of acronyms and
> > abbreviations by default.
>
> -1
>
> Abbreviations should be pronounced as their expanded form.
> Acronyms should be pronounced in there contracted form.
> Initialisms should be spoken letter by letter.
I'm not an expert on accessibility, but i have always been taught that
you should avoid messing with aural stylesheets as much as possible.
When they over-ride user preferences this causes problems - we
shouldn't assume we know best for the users.
That said, the way i indicate initialisms is through the use of
semantics class names and CSS.
<abbr class="initialism">W3C</abbr>
abbr.initialism {speak: spell-out; }
according to the CSS aural style sheet page[1]
======
spell-out
Spells the text one letter at a time (useful for acronyms and
abbreviations).
======
Something similar could apply to acronyms.
<abbr class="acronym">RADAR</abbr>
abbr.acronym {speak: normal; }
-brian
[1] - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html#speaking-props
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