- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:51:55 +0200
- To: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- CC: public-wai-ert@w3.org
I agree with Christophe. Also, I think such abbreviations should be
generally avoided (not for accessibility reasons, just for clarity).
Cheers,
Shadi
Christophe Strobbe wrote:
>
> At 16:23 17/06/2009, Johannes Koch wrote:
>> Shadi Abou-Zahra schrieb:
>>> Dear group,
>>> During the previous teleconference call we agreed on an approach for
>>> using <acronym> elements in our documents.
>>
>> Do we want to markup and expand abbreviations like "e.g.", "i.e.",
>> "etc."?
>
> It may be more work to use acronym markup than to replace with the
> explanation or expansion ('<acronym title="for example">e.g.</acronym>'
> versus 'for example').
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe
>
>
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