- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:49:35 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Pentasis wrote:
>
> Actually, it would solve a problem like this:
>
> What if I style abbr so that the title attribute is shown after the
> abbreviation:
>
> abbr[title]:after {
> content: " ("attr(title)")";
> }
>
> Now obviously I don't need and don't want to do this for every instance
> of the abbreviation on the page visually (just the first one on each
> page would be enough) , but I do want the title attribute to be expanded
> for screenreaders on each instance.
>
> Using this solution would enable the screenreaders to get the title
> information from a previous instance, but at the same time would not
> render it visually.
That seems like a problem that should be solved in CSS, not HTML. (What if
you wanted another style sheet that showed the abbreviation for the first
_two_ occurances?)
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