a11y is web accessibility
Chris Coyier,
CSS-Tricks,
Aug 29, 2020
Acronyms are used all the time, and they often mix numbers and letters and sometimes even Roman numerals. They're an easy target for critics concerned about accessibility, but they shouldn't be, at least, not without a little diligence. Unless the acronym is one that everyone knows, in news writing the standard practice is to write out the term in full the first time the acronym is used; readers will notice I follow this practice on OLDaily, and it is recommended in this CSS-Tricks article. Additionally, when it is being introduced, the acronym can be introduced semantically with an abbr tag. It seems like a good idea to me, though it needs to be implemented in text editors (the editor I use automatically deletes the tag as invalid).
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