- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@virgin.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:13:36 -0000
- To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Jason said: This issue has been discussed before. The main conclusion has been that the difference between abbreviations and acronyms is not particularly important--both HTML elements will produce the same effect when rendered, for instance, by a speech-based browser. I'd go further than that, in support of Charles, say dump one. Again with Charles, choose acronym and dump abbr. jason: In effect, both ABBR and ACRONYM identify particular terms as special: they may be spelled out by speech synthesizers, marked as technical terms for purposes of spelling checkers and, perhaps, search engines; a TITLE may be provided, under which circumstances it may be rendered by the browser instead of the abbreviation/acronym (in speech-based environments especially), and so on. DP. And when going to braille, we can correctly idenify terms of this nature. Let the linguists have their play, keep the markup simple would be my solution. Regards, DaveP
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