Re: Use of ACRONYM

by Gerhard Schoening <g.sch(at)onlinehome.de>

Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:19:56 +0100
To:	"John Brandt" <jbrandt04330(at)earthlink.net>
Cc:	aware-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	earthlink
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Hello John,

On Friday, March 15, 2002 at 21:27 you wrote:

> I maintain a website for an organization that uses its acronym for its
> name - Maine CITE. I am wondering if I need to add the <ACRONYM> </ACRONYM>
> tags to all references in our website....a daunting task I might add.

> I don't see this addressed in Section 508 standards, and Bobby has not
> caught it as a problem - likely because CITE is also a word.

> Is our site accessible without this tag?

> Suggestions, comments please. Also, please provide the correct coding
> method...Should it be "...Maine <ACRONYM>CITE</ACRONYM>....?"

> jeb

> John E. Brandt
> Augusta, ME 04330
> for www.mainecite.org
> jbrandt04330(at)earthlink.net



> PS: I initially used the phrase MaineCITE on the website (which is how it
> appears in most print media) and learned the hard way that text reading AT
> devices were reading this "Main-e-site."  So I fixed all of those.


Use of the acronym tag:

I'm using <.acronym title="Cascading
Style Sheets">CSS<./acronym>.

[Drop the dots in your code!]


-- 
Best regards,

Gerhard



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