That is a good point, though again it is assuming that the page will be read in a fully linear fashion. Depending on the nature of the page, a compromise of the first time per 'section' might be better. Again compare with a printed page where it is relatively easy for a sighted person to pick out the first use of an acronym / abbreviation on that page in order to get a reminder of what it means, or if the definition was skipped. I would imagine that this would be virtually impossible for a screen reader user to do, and if possible, skipping back to where they were would surely be impossible.
Regards, Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage > On the other hand, screen-readers are generally configured by > default > to always read out the expansion of text marked up as an > abbreviation > (that is, the contents of the title attribute), so using <abbr> (or > the non-standard <acronym>) repeatedly will force users of such > assistive technologies to listen to the full version on every > occurrence in the page. From what I've heard, this gets irritating > pretty quickly, and could be seen as diminishing the > accessibility of > the page. > > Regards, > > Nick. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
