Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
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¨Guideline 4
¨Clarify natural language usage.
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¨Use markup that facilitates pronunciation or interpretation of abbreviated or foreign text.
When content developers mark up natural language changes in a document, speech synthesizers and braille devices can automatically switch to the new language, making the document more accessible to multilingual users. Content developers should identify the predominant natural language of a document’s content (through markup or HTTP headers). Content developers should also provide expansions of abbreviations and acronyms. Syntesizers have a hard time pronouncing acronyms like http