On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
David Latapie wrote:
Consequently, what about a microformat?
Hmm.
<span class="ex-acronym">CERN</span>
<abbr title="Federal Bureau of Investigation"
class="initialism">FBI</abbr>
<abbr title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration"
class="acronym">NASA</abbr>
<abbr title="Lieutenant" class="contraction">Leut.</abbr>
Any others?
So "initialism" is a sequence of initial letters that is pronounced
as individual letters, and "acronym" is a sequence of initial letters
that is pronounced as if it were a word. Both are printed in all caps
(by default anyway). Yes?
What about an abbreviation for a single word:
<abbr title="Mister" class="wordpart">Mr.</abbr>
<abbr title="January" class="wordpart">Jan.</abbr>
In this case the abbreviation is always pronounced as the word it
abbreviates (title attribute), so a screen reader would simply read
the title attribute and move on. (Of course "wordpart" is an
unpleasant sort of class name, but...)
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David Walbert
LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill
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