- From: Yvette Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:50:18 +0100
- To: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
Gregg asked: <question> Can I ask the team to also consider the following as sufficient? For single documents that broken into multiple web pages, associating the definition with the abbreviation only on the first occurrence in the collection of web pages that comprise the document. </question> I strongly disagree that this is a sufficient technique. If the abbreviation isn't defined in the current page, there is no mechanism to determine the meaning. The user won't know where to find it, it could be in any of the preceeding pages. Even if the collection used to be a single document, that doesn't mean visitors will read it entirely. People may be looking for a specific subtopic using a search engine or the table of contents and land in the middle of the document. There is no reason to assume that they will have read the first occurrence of the abbreviation in the collection. Yvette Hoitink Heritas, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl WWW: http://www.heritas.nl
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