- From: David Walbert <dwalbert@learnnc.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:30:02 -0500
On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > David Latapie wrote: > >> Consequently, what about a microformat? > > Hmm. > > <span class="ex-acronym">CERN</span> > <abbr title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" > class="initialism">FBI</abbr> > <abbr title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration" > class="acronym">NASA</abbr> > <abbr title="Lieutenant" class="contraction">Leut.</abbr> > > Any others? So "initialism" is a sequence of initial letters that is pronounced as individual letters, and "acronym" is a sequence of initial letters that is pronounced as if it were a word. Both are printed in all caps (by default anyway). Yes? What about an abbreviation for a single word: <abbr title="Mister" class="wordpart">Mr.</abbr> <abbr title="January" class="wordpart">Jan.</abbr> In this case the abbreviation is always pronounced as the word it abbreviates (title attribute), so a screen reader would simply read the title attribute and move on. (Of course "wordpart" is an unpleasant sort of class name, but...) _____ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill dwalbert at learnnc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070212/cfdf7334/attachment.htm>
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