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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
No, abbr should not be avoided. People who use screen readers benefit from it greatly, even when no title attribute is used (in fact the title attribute can be over-used)
What the effing point of standards if we are just going to make up our own based upon what some crappy software happens to support?
The web sucks *especially for non visual users* because almost no one follows standards. Is that what you want with ePub?
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It's not a matter of what we want. It would be good to have all ePub software be able to handle the latest ePub specifications to the fullest of the hardware in use. It's a matter of what is. The software just isn't there to do it how you want. The problem is that ePub wasn't done correctly in the first place and getting old software updated is not happening the way it should. Adobe made a huge blunder with DRM and because of that, a lot of people are sticking with ADE 2.0.1 on their computers. That's why I still have ADE 2.0.1 on my computers.
You have two choices. You go with what works or you go with what you think should work (that won't work in most cases).
A lot of Android reading software is quite poor. Some iOS reading software is quite poor. A lot of software doesn't handle advanced ePub 3 features. Accessibility is one of the things not well supported. I have no software that supports ePub 3 accessibility features. The most compatible ePub 3 software I have is the Access renderer that's installed on my Kobo Aura H2O. But the H2O doesn't have sound. So that's out. I've never tried video, but without sound, why bother? I don't know what else does or doesn't work. But people that have older devices like Sony Readers or an older nook will not have software for ePub 3 comparability.
There is even an issue trying to create an eBook or iBooks. Apple doesn't update it individually. It gets updated when there is a new iOS. So there are a lot of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches out there with an older version of iBooks going back to iOS 8 or 9 (and maybe even earlier).
This is a losing battle that you are going to lose. So i suggest you listen to us as we know this stuff.