Panic_Man - 9:37 am on Dec 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

I had always assumed that the difference between ABBR and ACRONYM was clear (with respect to accessibility at least)

Am I right in thinking that screen readers will uses these tags to determing how to pronounce their content?

For example:
[abbr]CSS[/abbr] would be pronounced by a screen reader as 'initials' ie. "cee-ess-ess"

[acronym]RADAR[/acronym] would be pronounced normally, as a 'word'.

Clearly, there is a problem when using [abbr] for everything.

Consider the frustration of listenting to a document about RADAR, where every occurence of the word is marked up as [abbr]RADAR[/abbr].

[edited by: Panic_Man at 9:41 am (utc) on Dec. 8, 2006]