FFS can we stop spending billions on designing around screen readers and fucking spend billions on good screen readers.
And, like the article says, even leaving aside screenreader users this has a practical benefit for many users. If your prose is complex enough that you have to use a Latin abbreviation for precision you’re probably in need of a content designer to simplify it.
<abbr title="Fat Finger Syndrome">FFS</abbr>
This also helps reduce ambiguity about the meaning of an acronym, improving the communication of semantic intent.
That said, it appears that expansion of <abbr> isn't consistently supported[1].
I suspect most screenreaders would simply say "Eff Eff Ess".
[1] http://www.powermapper.com/tests/screen-readers/labelling/ac...
Correct, thankfully. I don't really see a use case for screen reader-specific usage of the abr tag. If everybody else has to read "FFS", possibly having to look it up on Google to know what on earth it is, why wouldn't I also? Although I suspect that as a sighted user, you can mouse-over some text marked up with abr and see the expanded form.