[thelist] When an Acronym is not an Acronym

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Wed Jun 29 12:19:34 CDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hayes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:58 PM
> 
> Some content acronyms don't actually stand for anything, but 
> need to be
> spelt out.
> 
> So say the acronym is BOB.  I don't want a screen reader to 
> say "bob" but to
> spell out B.O.B
> 
> What's the best way of handling this?

Chris,

<ducking>
The acronym tag?

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_acronym.asp
</ducking>

Please don't shoot.

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