- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:04:43 -0500 (EST)
- To: mlye@trentu.ca (Matthew Lye)
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
RAM is an interesting case because there is almost no audience for which one wishes to speak it as its spelling. If they don't know what RAM is, then one needs to say "Random Access Memory" or "main memory." depending on the context. Here is a case where CSS2 gives some real help. There are speak/spell controls that can be applied to classes of elements, for example ACRONYM vs. ABBR, and you can introduce a user's stylesheet coordinated with the screen reader you have. The style processing could introduce the spaces between letters in the case of a known-dumb screen reader. I don't know if this style is currently in inventory or not. I feel that I wouldn't know finally what to suggest to authors without asking the UI group what their developers saw as the best way their tools should behave on this point. Al Gilman
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