From: "Nick Fitzsimons"
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.
Then I think it is a screen-reader issue as I believe there is no point to
have this as default setting since documents are supposed to contain the
expansion in plain text already...
"Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where
it first occurs. [Priority 3]"
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-expand-abbr
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Regards,
Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com
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