Re: Help please with tagging acronyms for screenreaders

Also if it's possible (because I'm not sure if the context) it helps to
spell out the first appearance of the word with the acronym beside it, then
all the appearances of that acronym in the page won't be as mysterious.

For example:

Thank Goodness it's Friday (TGIF)

Although today is Thursday, I felt compelled to say TGIF, because I get to
watch Truth Finders and Nick Frost is in it. Hurrah.



On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 3:43 AM Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
wrote:

>
> On 10/11/2020 14:55, Jenny Norman wrote:
> > I’m looking for *how to correctly tag acronyms so that they are read out
> > as single letters by a screen reader*, rather than read out in full e.g.
> > WHO UN USA etc.
>
> The best thing to do is nothing. Screen readers use the same heuristics
> as humans do to determine how to speak acronyms - and it works.
>
> If the acronym can be spoken like a word (NATO or WHO for example) it
> generally will be. If it cannot (like USA or HMRC for example) it won't.
>
> The other thing to bear in mind is that there are just too many
> variables for you to be able to make a screen reader do anything along
> these lines. More on this here:
>
> https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/08/advice-for-creating-content-that-works-well-with-screen-readers/
>
> So your best bet is to write your content and the markup that supports
> it in a way that supports good grammar and leave it at that.
>
> Léonie.
>
>
> >
> > Any advice appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jenny
> >
>
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