Request for suggestions for marking glossary terms in online cour ses

Our organization is creating an online curriculum that will be available to
the general public. We also know that people with disabilities will take the
courses. We're working hard to ensure that the courses are accessible.

One course feature is an online glossary. We want to identify which terms or
phrases within the online text are included in the glossary in a way that is
accessible, especially for people with visual disabilities. The method has
to be obvious to the students, whether or not they have any disabilities.
The terms will not link to the glossary (although I'm going to check with
the vendor who's developing the course to ask why not).

So far, I've come up with a couple of ideas, but I'm not sure how a screen
reader would interpret them.

	1. Put the letter "g" as a superscript before or after the word or
phrase.
	2. Put the letter "g" in parentheses before or after the word or
phrase.

I can't find an inline tag that would work that we're not already using for
other purposes (e.g., em, b, i). The glossary terms and phrases aren't all
acronyms or abbreviations, so we can't use abbr or acronym.

In the past, our vendor has used popups or new windows when students pass a
mouse over the terms, but we've told them that popups and opening new
windows are not an acceptable solutions.

We would really appreciate your input and suggestions.

Thank you.

Ellen Shay		ellens(at)deltasociety.org
VP Internet Strategies & Services
Delta Society	www.deltasociety.org
(425) 226-7357

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