Carolyn Rosner wrote:
> I find it helpful as a designer and web-page reader to see acronyms
> (or initialisms, as I understand the proper term to be for non-'word'
> abbreviations) spelled out each time. My question is: is the use of
> <acronym> deprecated, or is it still OK to use? Is it accessible?
>
Presently HTML 5 recommends ABBR instead of ACRONYM. However, it will be
a long time before ACRONYM goes away, I imagine. I don't know whether
screen readers try to pronounce an acronym as a word or not, but with
Internet Explorer's historical lack of support for ABBR, I imagine
screen readers have adapted.
> I do my acronyms/initialisms this way, I like it because on hover you
> get the thing spelled out: <acronym title="Woods Hole Oceanographic
> Institution">WHOI</acronym>
>
Yes. You can do the same with ABBR elements. To get older IE to work,
put this in the HEAD section so that it runs before the page loads:
<!--[if lt IE7]>
<script>document.createElement('abbr');</script>
<![endif]-->
Cordially,
David
--
______________________________________________________________________
css-discuss [[email protected]]
http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d
List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html
Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
