- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:14:01 -0400 ()
- To: "T. V. Raman" <raman@Adobe.COM>
- cc: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, T. V. Raman wrote:
> I'd separate the issue of acronyms from pronunciations.
That makes sense and is what I was intending. We should work towards
handling pronunciation in a new attribute that encodes phonemic and
prosodic information. The TITLE attribute amplifies the meaning by
expanding the acronym. An example peculiar to the UK:
<acronym title="Womens Institute">WI</acronym>
> On the other hand, there are many commonly used acronyms that are heavily
> context-dependent.
Right, or which are unlikely to appear in dictionaries.
> Jan in a calendar is January;
> but you dont want the speech UA to say January every time it sees Jan.
>
> This latter category of acronyms would be useful to markup.
Except this is really an abbreviation, that is easily handled by
client-side dictionaries.
> In fact marking up "lb" might help both speech users as well as
> non-native speakers of English i.e.
> <acronym title = "pounds">lb</acronym>
Yes, that is how I would use it too.
Regards,
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
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Received on Monday, 9 June 1997 15:13:00 UTC