- From: Matthew Lye <mlye@trentu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 98 10:24:29 -0500
- To: "Pawson, David" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On 1/30/1998 08:43 AM, Pawson, David wrote: >There are probably better examples in esoteric fields full of jargon. ><acronym>IT</acronym> is just such a field. Someone not >familiar with the field may not recognise <acronym>RAM</acronym> >as a computer term and interpret as a sheepish item. Apologies, but this strikes me as a really neat problem. For many acronyms a simple check of the phonemics (?) can determine whether it should be parsed as a word or as 'letter-spelling'. Other acronyms may require interpretation once or always: 'RAM', for instance, might be read as 'Random Access Memory' the first time [with a little client-level semantic sugaring: "...Random Access Memory, known as RAM,...". I assume the tag supports a reference to the full word? Matt.
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