| Title | Acronym with obscure expansion in title attribute |
|---|---|
| Description | A short text with an acronym; the expansion of the acronym is provided in the title attribute of the acronym element, but because the expansion — as opposed to the acronym itself — is not well known, the acronym is also repeated in the title attribute. |
| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-03-15 |
| Status | accepted by both validators |
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: acronym
(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 an expansion of the acronym is available.
Check whether an expansion of the acronym is available.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case passes (line 9, column 39) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-located.
The user can find the expanded forms of abbreviations and/or acronyms, but in this case, the expanded form may confuse the user because most people only know the abbreviated form. So the acronym is repeated in the "expanded form".
This is a slightly modified version of 3.1_l3_sc3_006.
This test case maps to technique G97: Providing the abbreviation immediately following the expanded form (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#G97).
The test case passes (line 9, column 39) 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, but in this case, the expanded form may confuse the user because most people only know the abbreviated form. So the acronym is repeated in the "expanded form".
This is a slightly modified version of 3.1_l3_sc3_006.