Acronyms and Abbreviations

This set comes from http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_17_defining_acronyms.html; see that page for full details.

ADA

Americans With Disabilities Act

ALT

alternate

AOL

America Online

API

application interface

CGI

common gateway interface

CMS

content management system

CSS

cascading style sheet

CTRL

control

DMV

Department of Motor Vehicles

DNS

domain name system

DTD

document type definition

EFF

Electronic Frontier Foundation

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions list

FSF

Free Software Foundation

GFDL

GNU Free Documentation License

GIA

Gemological Institute of America

GPL

GNU General Public License

HTML

hypertext markup language

IE

Internet Explorer

IIRC

if I remember correctly

IIS

Internet Infomation Server

IO

Instant Outlining

KB

kilobytes

KDE

K Desktop Environment

LONGDESC

long description

MB

megabyte

MSDN

Microsoft Developer Network

MSN

Microsoft Network

MT

Movable Type

Mac

Macintosh

NC

North Carolina

OPML

Outline Processor Markup Language

P2P

Peer To Peer

PGDN

page down

PGUP

page up

PBS

Public Broadcasting System

PDF

portable document format

PONUR

Perceivable, Operable, Navigable, Understandable, Robust

RSS

Rich Site Summary

RU

Radio Userland

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SSN

social security number

TDD

telecommunications device for the deaf

US

United States

VNC

Virtual Network Computing

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

WCAG

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

WYSIWYG

what you see is what you get

Win

Windows

XHTML

extensible hypertext markup language

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

CSS

cascading style sheets