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Best Practice N°6- LevelLevel 2- Section accessibility
Description
The meaning/expansion of acronyms and abbreviations is made explicit when they first appear in the body of each page.
Objectives
explicit the meaning of acronyms and abbreviations, enable the display of alternative textual content.
Possible technical solutions:
Acronyms and abbreviations are identified by the <abbr> and/or <acronym> elements When they first appear in the page body their title attribute is set with the meaning of the acronym. The language of the acronym can be specified with the lang (in HTML) and/or xml:lang (in XHTML) attributes when the language differs from the document default language.
For exemple : <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language" lang="en">HTML</abbr>
Control methods:
Check that alternative text for the acronym or abbreviation is displayed in main graphical web browsers when the mouse is above the image.
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