A short text with an abbreviation; the expansion of the abbreviation is provided in the title attribute of the abbr element. Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or earlier) does not support the abbr element, so users of this browsers can have trouble finding the meaning of the abbreviation. Abbreviation with expansion in <html:code>title</html:code> attribute 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 intended to pass because the correct expansion of the abbrevation is provided.

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If you do this test with a screen reader, you may have to adapt the verbosity settings.

Can you find the meaning of the abbreviation in the text?

The user can find the expanded forms of abbreviatons and/or acronyms.

Up to version 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support the abbr element: it is ignored by the browser's Document Object Model (DOM). This means that screen readers can only acces the element's title attribute by inspecting the raw markup. (See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2005OctDec/0178.html).