- From: Chuck Letourneau <cpl@starlingweb.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:07:42 -0400
- To: <guy@squeakywheel.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
In making that recommendation, we were following the standard print convention of only expanding the first occurrence of an unfamiliar abbreviation or acronym in a document. There was significant discussion on the topic, with some members of the working group feeling strongly that all occurrences should be marked up. Others felt that this was too great a burden on page authors, especially when the print convention was so universally accepted. Anyway, a consensus was reached with the "minimum" requirement being to only mark up the first occurrence. Of course, any author is free to code all occurrences if they so choose. One possibility is to tie this checkpoint to the Authoring Tool working group (if it is not already being considered). Perhaps an authoring tool could be given the "smarts" to prompt for the first expansion of an acronym or abbreviation, then, optionally reuse the markup whenever the same string is detected. Regards, Chuck Letourneau At 16/06/99 02:07 PM , Guy M. Fisher wrote: >I am trying to clarify checkpoint 4.2 of the Web Content Accessibility >Guidelines which suggests using the <title> attribute to specify the >expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it >"first occurs." > >Is titling only the first occurrence adequate? What if a user skips >past the first occurrence of an abbreviation? > >Thank you. > > >Guy M. Fisher > >Cleveland, Ohio >guy@squeakywheel.org > ----------- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group cpl@starlingweb.com (613) 820-2272
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