| Title | Abbreviation with expansion in title attribute (German) |
|---|---|
| Description | A short German 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. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | draft |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: abbr
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
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.
End user.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 9, column 43) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#meaning-located.
The user can find the expanded forms of abbreviations 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).