Gday,
I was writing in my blog and was using acronyms and abbreviations and I
realised I didn't know something about the right way of doing things,
and I'm fairly confident someone here would.
This may be off topic because it's a question of accessible and/or
semantics. It may be also a
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Subject: [WSG] Abbreviations and Acronyms
Gday,
I was writing in my blog and was using acronyms and abbreviations and I
realised I didn't know
What makes more sense from the accessibility point of view?
What makes more sense from the semantic point of view?
Or is this just a personal choice and has absolutely no effect
whatsoever on the end result? Am I over analysing this to death?
I wrote a long post on this subject a while
. :)
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Abbreviations and Acronyms
What makes more sense from the accessibility point of view?
What makes
G'day
Paul Noone wrote:
IMO, provided you are somehow offering a visible definition of the acronym
or abbreviation - be it by use of a specific tag, or the ill-fated title
attribute - I think you have achieved your objective.
Or even the traditional way: Web Standards Group (WSG) the first
As far as I am aware acronym is deprecated in XHTML 2.0 in favor of abbr? Here is an article on it from Lars Holst which dates back to 2003, but I think that it is still very relevant.
http://larsholst.info/blog/index.php?p=14more=1#more14-- __Bugs are, by
althasn't
beenimplemeted across the board for this purpose.
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Acronyms
As far as I am aware acronym
[snip] ACRONYM and ABBR
I take a fairly simplistic view on this one:
1) Future standards only include ABBR.
2) Acronyms are a form of abbreviation.
3) For the sake of good writing, you should spell out the full term on
first use anyway. That covers bad browsers, too.
so, I just use ABBR
