Abbreviation without expansion Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it first occurs.

Help

Add a title attribute to abbr elements containing the full expansion of the term. Also add a full expansion in plain text at the point the term is first used on a page.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 3.1.4
• WCAG 2.1 3.1.4

Change history

• 5.37 May 2020 Fixed false positive. Changed rule ID from AccWcag1-4.2.1 to AccHtmlAbbrNoExpansion.
• 5.9 Jun 2015 No longer triggers for ACRONYM, due to lack of screen reader support.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Now triggers WCAG2 issue.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccHtmlAbbrNoExpansion