Link to the Show / Show NotesThis 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)
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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
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.
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