Emoticons: Re: WCAG 2.0 Test Suite

Referring to the emoticons:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/test161.html

I think there is an error in the techniques:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#emoticon

Emoticon is shown like:

<span title="smiley in ASCII art">:-)</span>

but an emoticon is an abbreviation, so it must be:

<abbr title="smiley in ASCII art">:-)</abbr>

Also in the ATRC sample is used <abbr>:

http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/servlet/ShowCheck?check=162&lang=eng

Received on Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:30:07 UTC