Chris Hayes wrote:
> Some content acronyms don't actually stand for anything, but need to be
> spelt out.
Got an example? That's sorta contradictory... Some abbreviations are
not acronyms, though.
> So say the acronym is BOB. I don't want a screen reader to say "bob" but to
> spell out B.O.B
HTML:
<abbr title="whatever BOB stands for">B.O.B.</abbr>
CSS (media="aural"):
abbr {
speak: spell-out;
}
It should be noted that the W3's spec[0] examples on abbr and acronym
tags are whacked. In English anyway, acronyms are a specialized sort of
abbreviation, wherein the acronym is composed of initial letters of the
words in a multiword phrase. The spec seems to have been written by
folks who were not clear on that. Evolt has an article on this, too.[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR
http://evolt.org/article/HTML_is_not_an_acronym/17/35750/index.html
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