- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:27:32 -0600
- To: "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, "Jens Meiert" <jens.meiert@erde3.com>, "Sailesh Panchang" <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Ugh. Wendy quoted the XHTML 2 spec: from the XHTML 2.0 spec: The abbr element indicates that a text fragment is an abbreviation (e.g., W3C, XML, Inc., Ltd., Mass., etc.); this includes acronyms. Ugh! It would be better to say something like, The abbr element indicates that a text fragment is either an abbreviation or an acronym..< abbr title="By the way">BTW</abbr>, I wonder how the linguists feel about making acronym and abbreviation synonymous? John "Good design is accessible design." Please note our new name and URL! John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/ -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Wendy A Chisholm Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:47 pm To: Jens Meiert; Sailesh Panchang Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: Abbreviations and Acronyms: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft Since XHTML 2.0 currently has one element for both acronyms and abbreviations [1], we felt we should head that direction as well. We should clarify this in the HTML Techniques document. from the XHTML 2.0 spec: The abbr element indicates that a text fragment is an abbreviation (e.g., W3C, XML, Inc., Ltd., Mass., etc.); this includes acronyms. --wendy [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-inline-text.html#sec_9.1. At 03:18 AM 12/3/2003, Jens Meiert wrote: > > In the example for abbreviation, are WWW and SSN not acronyms? > >You are absolutely right, and the cited definitions are also correct. >-- Maybe the WAI documents wording is intended since e.g. upcoming >XHTML 2.0 will AFAIK only support the <abbr /> element (which is >another topic I don't necessarily agree to)? Or is it a mistake? > > >Best regards, > Jens. > > >-- >Jens Meiert >Interface Architect > >http://meiert.com/ -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/ /--
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