[thelist] Site Check: Is it accessible?
Sarah Adams
mr.sanders at geekjock.ca
Mon Dec 4 10:34:24 CST 2006
>>> If I were to put such words within <abbr> tags, would screen readers
>>> read out the title of the tag instead?
>>>
>>> Thus:
>>> <abbr title="parkway">Pkwy.</abbr>
>> I really like this idea, but unfortunately JAWS reads this as if the
>> abbr tag was not there.
>
> Does the <acronym> tag work for this? (This is sooo frustrating that
> browsers don't understand these tags. I thought that was the whole
> point of them! Not to mention the fact that "Pkwy." is a standard
> English abbreviation of the word "parkway"....)
>
> <acronym title="parkway">Pkwy.</acronym>
According to this intro to accessibility (which I highly recommend,
btw), IE doesn't support <abbr> but does support <acronym>:
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_17_defining_acronyms.html
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