- From: John Colby <John.Colby@uce.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:17:46 +0100
- To: "Christophe Strobbe" <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I really think we have to ignore semantics and look at bugs in IE here - IE does not correctly display tooltips for <abbr> but does for <acronym> However XHTML 2 does not have <acronym> in the language definition but does have <abbr> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/elements.html#a_elements), but that's in the future. In order to get tooltips to display correctly then <acronym> is the only practicable method we have in our armoury, an we should get the thing to work and not bother about the precise distinction. As for full stops - this is a matter for the organisation - how they call themselves. It may matter to speech readers, though, how they phrase their output. John John Colby Lecturer, Department of Computing, The Business School, Room F328a, Feeney Building, University of Central England, Franchise Street, Perry Barr, Birmingham B42 2SU Tel: +44 (0) 121 331 6937 Essential Website - http://essential.tbs.uce.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christophe Strobbe Sent: 10 October 2005 09:06 To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: acronym and abbreviation markup - insert full stops?? Hi David and all, At 08:12 10/10/2005, David Woolley wrote: <blockquote> > For example <acronym>B.B.C</acronym> for BBC. To re-raise an old chestnut, BBC is not an acronym in the British English definition of acronym. </blockquote> My own searches in British English dictionaries [1] showed that "the British English definition of acronym" does not exist. Most say that acronyms are "usually" pronounced as a word and add a reference to "initialism", but if "initialism" is not in the dictionary, the definition of acronym does not say anything about pronunciation (thereby implicitly blurring the distinction between acronym and initialism). Regarding the insertion of full stops, my advice is to consult an up-to-date dictionary, just as for other issues of orthography. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JulSep/att-0851/Abbre viationAcronym.html Regards, Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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