A short text with an acronym; the acronym is marked up with the acronym element, but the expansion is not provided. The expansion — as opposed to the acronym itself — is not well known. Acronym with obscure expansion omitted Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-01 draft Phrase elements: EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ABBR, and ACRONYM

This test case is ambiguous: strictly speaking, it fails the success criterion because the expansion is not provided. However, the expansion is not well known and would probably not be helpful possibly even confusing.

 enduser

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (special kind of abbreviation). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you hover your mouse over it.

Was the mechanism of presenting the expansion adequate ?

Please provide your comments in regard to possible difficulties with this presentation mechanism. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 4 10 motor impairment

In this test you will get a short text with an acronym (special kind of abbreviation). You may have to adapt the verbosity settings of your screen reader so that the expansion will be read to you.

Was the mechanism of presenting the expansion adequate ?

Please provide your comments in regard to possible difficulties with this presentation mechanism. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 4 10 blindness

In this test you will get a short text with an acronym (special kind of abbreviation). To get the expansion of the acronym you may have to adapt the verbosity settings of your screen reader and Braille display.

Was the mechanism of presenting the expansion adequate ?

Please provide your comments in regard to possible difficulties with this presentation mechanism. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 4 10 blindness

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (special kind of abbreviation). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you hover your mouse over it

Was the mechanism of presenting the expansion adequate ?

Please provide your comments in regard to possible difficulties with this presentation mechanism. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 4 10 low vision

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviation like cm for centimeter). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you move the mouse cursor over the acronym. Make sure that your browser can present expansions of abbreviations and acronyms.

Was the presentation of the expansion adequate for you ?

Please provide comments if you had difficulties with the presentation of the expansion. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 4 10 intellectual disability

IIn this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviation like cm for centimeter). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you move the mouse cursor over the acronym.

Was the presentation of the expansion adequate for you ?

Please provide comments if you had difficulties with the presentation of the expansion. Suggestions on improvements are welcome as well:

 intellectual disability deafness dyslexia

Do you need an explanation of the meaning of the acronym in the text?

blindness intellectual disability colour vision deficiency deafness dexterity impairment dyslexia hard of hearing low vision motor impairment other

The user cannot find the expanded forms of abbreviatons and/or acronyms, but in this case, this may be OK because the expanded form may confuse the user.