- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:23:23 -0700
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: "T. V. Raman" <raman@Adobe.COM>, w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
TVR> Jan in a calendar is January;
TVR> but you dont want the speech UA to say January every time it sees Jan.
TVR>
TVR> This latter category of acronyms would be useful to markup.
DSR> Except this is really an abbreviation, that is easily handled by
DSR> client-side dictionaries.
Not rue. If a client-side dictionary went ahead and treated Jan as an
abbreviation for January,
you'd get
the first name "Jan" spoken as January.
TVR> In fact marking up "lb" might help both speech users as well as
TVR> non-native speakers of English i.e.
TVR> <acronym title = "pounds"TVR>lb</acronymTVR>
Yes, that is how I would use it too.
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