Ross Bruniges skrev:
the abbr and acronym elements have extra value
in the fact that a screen reader will say
out each letter opposed to trying to pronounce the word.
Here is how I understand the difference between an acronym and other
abbreviations:
Acronyms should *not* be spelled as, but
On 9/1/08 (20:18) dwain said:
i was mistaken earlier saying cynthia
says remarked on having to have the title attribute on the abbr element.
after i added titles to the abbr element i didn't get the error.
Dwain, I didn't quite follow that.
You initially reported that Cynthia gave an error
it was taw that gave me the error not cynthia says. that was my error.
dwain
On 1/10/08, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/1/08 (20:18) dwain said:
i was mistaken earlier saying cynthia
says remarked on having to have the title attribute on the abbr element.
after i added titles
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From: John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, 9 January, 2008 4:54:22 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Acronym element
e.g. Web Standards Group (WSG) the WSG wouldn't benefit from the
acronym element.
No, I believe you only then need
On 1/9/08, Ross Bruniges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so I would recommend if you have control over the content that use use
them every time you need (the title doesn't have to be used each time
though)
cynthia says that each use needs a title for priority 3 validation. i have
just dealt with
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2008/1/9, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 1/9/08, Ross Bruniges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so I would recommend if you have control over the content that use use
them every time you need (the title doesn't have to be used each time
though)
cynthia says that each use needs a
thank you.
On 1/9/08, Rochester oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
border:none
btw, how do you get rid of the dotted underline on each abreviation? i
tried styling the abbr with text-decoration:none and the underline is
still there. any ideas?
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dwain alford
About the abbr, i think u may use it only once per page but if u want to
speel-out the other times use the css aural.
Example:
Bla bla bla acronym title=World wide web consortiumW3C/acronym
bla bla bla... bla bla span class=spellW3C/span
and the css (media aural) span.spell { *speak:
have you run this through taw online? i was mistaken earlier saying cynthia
says remarked on having to have the title attribute on the abbr element.
after i added titles to the abbr element i didn't get the error.
i am also finding differences between the online accessibility checkers. i
also
Hi all. I have a quick question re: practical use of the acronym element.
If I have a piece of text that defines the word, then includes the
acronym immediately after in brackets, I assume there's no need/point
in using acronym for the text in brackets?
e.g. Web Standards Group (WSG) the WSG
e.g. Web Standards Group (WSG) the WSG wouldn't benefit from the
acronym element.
No, I believe you only then need to use the acronym or abbr tag for the
first instance of it following where it appears in brackets on any one
page (ie at the start of a new page, you'd expand the
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