Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Abbreviation expansions should only be supplied when they help the reader to understand the content, not just because the word happens to be an abbreviation.
I agree, unless using <abbr> with no title is useful to get the correct rendering of abbreviations in non-visual media. I guess e.g. aural browsers must cope with rendering of abbreviations like PET and DNA without needing explicit markup, but I think knowing this sort of thing is important in determining the wording of the spec.
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