[Wsuug] Updated/new site

Fri Feb 1 10:39:44 EST 2008

Some do and some don't...I always thought they didn't, then I downloaded a
trial of one at one time...and it did...i read up on it and it seems that
some do it, while others don't.

One thing you can do, is hide the abbr (or the h2...whichever) from the
media type "aural".  That will make screen readers not read them...

As with everything else...there are 50 ways to do this...and 50 opinions to
go with each of those ways...

On Feb 1, 2008 10:19 AM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2008 6:31 PM, Andrew Jaswa <ajaswa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > <div id="Header">
> >                <h1><abbr title="Web Standards and Usability Users
> Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
> >                <h2>Web Standards and Usability User Group</h2>
> > </div>
>
> When I first wrote this I noticed there is one problem with the above
> solution. That is that some people/screen readers will read this as
> "Web Standards and Usability Users Group Web Standards and Usability
> Users Group". After mulling over this for a little bit more I'd like
> to propose another solution (which might fix the issue at hand) and
> get feedback on it.
>
> <head>
> <script>
> function fixHeader() {
>        var heading = document.createElement("h2");
>        var text = document.getElementById("name").title;
>        document.getElementById("Header").appendChild(heading);
>        heading.innerHTML = text;
> }
> </script>
> </head>
> <body onload="fixHeader();">
>                <div id="Header">
>                        <h1><abbr id="name" title="Web Standards and
> Usability Users
> Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
>                </div>
> </body>
>
> Will generate:
>
> <div id="Header">
>                <h1><abbr id="name" title="Web Standards and Usability
> Users
> Group">WSUUG</abbr></h1>
>                <h2>Web Standards and Usability Users Group</h2>
> </div>
>
> I guess the question then is will screen readers read generated markup
> and how well do they do it?
>
> Andrew
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