RE: ABBR and ACRONYM

On 1/30/1998 10:53 AM, David Poehlman wrote:

>Ram might not be a good example, but what we need have done is to have the
>acroneem passed as r a m.
>this would give a screenreader the opportunity to spell it out and avoide
>misconceptions as to what it is based on what it sounds like.

My thinking is that a person familiar with the context in which 'RAM' is 
being used might find that really irritating.  But I gather that you are 
thinking of a mark-up to browser to screen reader chain, rather than 
direct parsing of the mark-up by a text-to-speech browser.  In that case 
I almost agree with you, except that for people reading the acronym 
visually, R space A space M would be less than optimal.  Thus, I would 
suggest that the HTML 4.0 specification should instruct that browsers 
support optional acronym spacing.

Received on Friday, 30 January 1998 11:12:28 UTC