- From: Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <emmanuelle@teleline.es>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:16:46 +0100
- To: "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>, <coordina@sidar.org>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, "Katie Haritos-Shea" <ryladog@earthlink.net>
- Cc: "WAI Cross-group list" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, <susanl@w3.org>, "Karl Dubost" <kdubost@w3.org>
Hi William and all, All the acronyms are abbreviated forms, but they are not abbreviations, there is difference among these two terms. And the readers offer different functions for the use of the abbreviations and of the acronyms. And the navigators react in a different way when a text labeled as abbreviation appears and when it appears labeled as acronym. If the creators of languages for the Web want to simplify, creating an unique label as much for abbreviations as for acronyms, the ideal thing would be that doesn't have the name of none of these two terms for not confusing the user, because the user will always use, as it is the case, abbreviations and acronyms.But at the moment the two labels exist and the WAI should give example of good use. Regards, Emmanuelle -----Mensaje original----- De: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org]En nombre de William Loughborough Enviado el: lunes, 12 de marzo de 2001 19:50 Para: coordina@sidar.org; Charles McCathieNevile; Katie Haritos-Shea CC: WAI Cross-group list; susanl@w3.org; Karl Dubost Asunto: RE: Abbreviations At 07:16 PM 3/12/01 +0100, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo wrote: >the difference between an abbreviation and an acronym. Much has been said about this but one fact remains: all acronyms are abbreviations. It doesn't matter much to the user because what's needed in any case is an expansion of these non-words. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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