- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:15:15 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Al Gilman wrote: > At one point I believe that Dave Raggett and I were humming in tune > to the tune that the link type should be for dictionaries and the > dictionary should be for abbreviations, but the link type should not > be so narrow as to be just for abbreviation dictionaries. Does > this change cause you any heartburn? > > -- I suppose the critical issue here is whether a user agent would need to distinguish between different types of dictionaries that might be linked into a document. What other kinds of dictionaries did you have in mind? The user agent must obviously be able to recognise that the link refers to a dictionary which is to be used to control the speech output by substituting each occurrence of a defined term (such as an abbreviation) with its definition (for example the expansion of the abbreviation). I agree in general terms that a unified approach to dictionaries would be desirable, provided that the foregoing requirement can be satisfied. I have also noted Daniel's response to the suggestion of implementing phonetic markup as a dictionary. Clearly, this possibility also needs to be considered here.
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