Ben Buchanan wrote:
Reducing a whole concept to a symbol? Wild ;)
In more general terms, that's exactly what language does...
eg. How do you get a screen reader to vocalise what the author intended with a visual communication? The only available method that I can think of is to wrap an ABBR around the item in question and specify what you mean.
That's because HTML has such a limited vocabulary of available elements. The more "correct" (although admittedly not ready for widespread use in the here and now) way would be to use additional vocabularies (in the case of use of greek letters in mathematical formulae, MathML or similar for instance) and/or to tie lookup tables for glyph/vocalisation intended for a particular document in metadata or something like a linked RDF.
Debating which of the severely lacking HTML elements would be most pervertable in order to achieve something that wasn't taken into account in HTML's design is certainly interesting, but futile (IMHO, of course).
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