- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:07:36 -0800
- To: Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <sinarmaya@retemail.es>
- Cc: <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 04:16 PM 2/22/2000 , Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo wrote: >And as for the users that don't use a screen reader it is useful that when >they placing the pointer of the mouse on the acronym they can read their >definition (Like it happens with IE). Would it be convenient that it >happened the same thing with the abbreviations? Maybe, mainly for the >readers that don't have a deep knowledge of the language in that the page is >edited, for example. Tooltip expansion of abbreviations and/or acronyms is not an optimal way to present this information, even for users with visual and mouse capabilities. We should be very careful about trying to encourage the use of TITLE as "tool tips" instead of a more sensible approach to the expansion of abbreviated content. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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