Hi Eric, Aankhen and al., Just answering very quickly on one sole idea of the exchanged ones in this thread:
Eric S Fraga wrote: > Aankhen <aank...@gmail.com> writes: >> The expansion is invisible by default; it shows up in a tooltip when you >> hover over the text. You can try a live example to see for yourself.[1] In >> this way, the expansion is always there when you need it (and you can >> distinguish between multiple terms sharing the same acronym, should the >> need ever arise), but it takes up no space if you don’t. > > There are those of us that, for one reason or another, do *not* use a mouse > or any other graphical pointer. Tooltips do not appear ever in those cases. > I would like a solution that does not rely on any particular graphical > interface paradigm, basically! > > Of course, I know that I am in the minority here... but accessibility is > always an important factor and one that should not be ignored, IMO. I don't think you're part of the minority. Anyway, there are good reasons to have tooltips (on a wish-basis), but other good reasons to have the list of acronyms at the end of the document (on a wish-basis): to get a readable and very accessible document when printed! Best regards, Seb -- Sébastien Vauban
