Acronym with obscure expansion in <html:code>title</html:code> attribute

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. Acronym with obscure expansion in <html:code>title</html:code> attribute Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 2006-03-15 accepted by both validators XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) 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.

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In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviated form like WWW for World Wide Web). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you hover the mouse over the acronym.

How easy or difficult was it to read the expanded form of the acronym?

Very easy 1 Easy 2 Neither easy nor difficult 3 Difficult 4 Very difficult 5 dexterity impairment motor impairment

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviated form like WWW for World Wide Web). You may have to adapt the verbosity settings of your screen reader so that the expansion will be read to you.

How easy or difficult was it to read the expanded form of the acronym?

Very easy 1 Easy 2 Neither easy nor difficult 3 Difficult 4 Very difficult 5 blindness

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviated form like WWW for World Wide Web). To get the expansion of the acronym you may have to adapt the verbosity settings of your screen reader or Braille display.

How easy or difficult was it to read the expanded form of the acronym?

Very easy 1 Easy 2 Neither easy nor difficult 3 Difficult 4 Very difficult 5 blindness

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviated form like WWW for World Wide Web). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you hover the mouse over the acronym.

Was the mechanism of presenting the expansion adequate ?

Very easy 1 Easy 2 Neither easy nor difficult 3 Difficult 4 Very difficult 5 low vision

In this test you will see a short text with an acronym (an abbreviated form like WWW for World Wide Web). The expansion of the acronym will appear when you move the mouse cursor over the acronym.

How easy or difficult was it to read the expanded form of the acronym?

Very easy 1 Easy 2 Neither easy nor difficult 3 Difficult 4 Very difficult 5 dyslexia intellectual disability

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).

This is a slightly modified version of 3.1_l3_sc3_006.