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Web Axe is a podcast and blog featuring practical web design accessibility tips
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Current Posts
Podcast #64: Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes
Sunday, July 13, 2008
This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast.Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes)
News
- Update on the ADA (WebAIM)
- Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age
- Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility"
- Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann
- Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc.
Announcements
- Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com
- The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30.
Main Segment
General Guidelines
- WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage
- WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable
Language in HTML tag
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" />
Code Examples: Blockquote
<blockquote>
<p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p>
<cite>Jane Doe</cite>
</blockquote>
<blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]">
<p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p>
</blockquote>
Code Examples: Inline quotes
<p>A customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross are
highly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p>
<q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</q>
As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are
highly recommended for web design!<q>
Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym
<acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym>
<abbr title="California">Cali</abbr>
Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers:
<th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets
acronym {speak : normal;}
abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}
abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes
List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.
Other Links
- Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices
- Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C)
Labels: abbreviation, acronym, language, podcast
posted by Dennis at Web Axe at 5:00 AM
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Dennis Lembree is the founder of web development company Web Overhauls, which specializes in web usability, standards, and accessibility.
About Ross
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3 Comments:
Language codes are to be taken from BCP 47, the current version, not the ten-year-old ISO 639-x series of standards.
The content of the cite attribute can only be a URI, not a string.
Per the W3C spec for Cite, it doesn't have to be a URI. It says a Cite tag "Contains a citation or a reference to other sources." One of the examples is a person's name.
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