| Title | Abbreviation with expansion in title attribute (German) |
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| 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 browser can have trouble finding the meaning of the abbreviation.
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| Creator | BenToWeb (Christophe.Strobbe@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005-09-01 |
| Status | rejected QA |
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.
Check whether a correct expansion of the abbreviation is provided.
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 43) the following success criterion: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#meaning-located.
The user can find the expanded form of the abbreviation.
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).
This test case maps to technique H28: Providing definitions for abbreviations by using the abbr and acronym elements (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#H28).
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 form of the abbreviation.
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).