RE: Use of ACRONYM

by "Shelley Watson" <shelley(at)internavigate.com>

Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:11:34 -0800
To:	"John Brandt" <jbrandt04330(at)earthlink.net>, <aware-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	earthlink
	todo: View Thread, Original

Welllll, if you use an html editor like Homesite you can do an extended
search and replace to add the acronym tag - that would make the task a lot
less daunting  :) As to the use of the tags I'll leave that to those "in the
know" :)

hth

Shelley
>
>
> 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>....?"
>

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