- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:54:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: Matthew Lye <mlye@trentu.ca>
- cc: David Poehlman <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I'm suggesting here that it be parsed that way not displayed that way if posssible. On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Matthew Lye wrote: > 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. > Hands-On-Technolog(eye)s touching the internet voice: 1-(301) 949-7599 poehlman@clark.net ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://www.clark.net/pub/poehlman
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