- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:09:01 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Rob, At 14:49 4/11/2005, Rob Haverty wrote: <blockquote> My main concern with this particular success criteria is in understanding exactly what is required. Are you suggesting that all abbreviations (including those that are common in practice and/or can be found in dictionaries) be expanded? And, are you defining abbreviation to include acronyms as well? </blockquote> There is no requirement that all abbreviations are expanded but that the expanded form is available in the content or a referenced dictionary or glossary. The term "abbreviation" has two meanings: 1. The shortened form of a word. 2. Shortened form of a word, phrase or name, i.e. a general category that includes abbreviations (1), initialisms and acronyms. The working group adopted the second meaning (see the Guide at http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Proposed_Guide_to_3.1_L3_SC3). We also resolved to add somewhere (as a note to the success criterion, if I remember correctly) that there are cases where an explanation is more useful than the expanded form, especially when the expanded form is in Latin or a foreign language. Regards, Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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