David Walbert wrote: > 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...)
What distinction are you drawing between a contraction (as in "<abbr title="Lieutenant" class="contraction">Leut.</abbr>") and a "wordpart"? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
