> 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 ago which talks about Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms and Contractions: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg15231.html A hotly debated topic... Also discussed at length here: http://juicystudio.com/article/abbreviations-acronyms.php Problems? 1. Internet Explorers does not support <abbr> 2. While some assistive devices have the ability to present abbreviations and/or acronyms, this feature often needs to be "turned on" - in other words it is not a default setting. Some users of assistive devices find this additional information too confusing and would be unlikely to turn on this feature at all. Russ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
