Category: abbreviation

Acronym and Abbr, Referencing W3C Docs, Hiding Text Links

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 13, 2009
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Some good recent web accessibility articles:

Acronym/Abbreviation best practice conundrum – Jared Smith from WebAIM discusses the issues with the use of the acronym and abbreviation tags and screen readers, and asks for input.
Which links to what: Referencing WCAG, ATAG, UAAG, and WAI-ARIA – The W3C explains referencing and linking to their documentation.
The Problem With Invisible Links – Frustrated screen reader user argues against the use of invisible links, with good reason.

Podcast #64: Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes

Post author By Dennis
Post date July 13, 2008
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This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast.

Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes)

News

Update on the ADA (WebAIM)
Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age
Andrew Kirkpatrick’s slides for presentation “Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility”
Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann
Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc.

Announcements

Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com
The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30.

Main Segment

General Guidelines

Language in HTML tag

Code Examples: Blockquote


Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!

Jane Doe



Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!

Code Examples: Inline quotes

A customer for web accessibility consulting said Dennis and Ross are
highly recommended for web design!, and that was pleasing to my ears.

Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!

As Jane Doe said, Dennis and Ross are
highly recommended for web design!

Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym

CA
Cali

Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers:


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CSS + Aural Style Sheets

acronym {speak : normal;}
abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}
abbr.truncation {speak : normal;}

Language Codes

List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.

Web Accessibility Acronyms and Abbreviations

Post author By Dennis
Post date June 13, 2006
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Dennis helps explain the following acronyms and abbreviations relevant in the world of web accessiblity, and gives a little insight too.

Download Web Axe Episode 20 (Explaining Acronyms)

W3C
WAI
WCAG
WebAIM
XHTML
DHTML
DOM
ALT
CSS
508
AJAX
SEO
HCI
USA

Webmonkey Glossary
SEO Terms

abbreviation acronym standards web

Abbreviation and Acronym Issue

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 3, 2005
6 Comments on Abbreviation and Acronym Issue

Using the ABBR and ACRONYM tags is a great technique that is simple and works very well—with standards-compliant browsers, that is. Until IE complies to world web standards, coders must hack the functionality in. I despise hacking for IE and try to avoid it. But, we have to admit that around 85% of users are still on IE and we should try to go out of our way sometimes to gratify them. If this is you, please try a standards-compliant browser such as Firefox or Netscape.

The ABBR and ACRONYM tags give the user the full text for an abbreviation and acronym. For example, ID would have “identification” associated with it. Example:

ID

But this won’t work in IE due to its lack of standards-compliancy. The method I’ve used the for word “ID” above so that it works in IE also is as follows: (the CSS would be in a global stylesheet, of course):