Andy,
On an accessibility mailing list, someone asked:
Is there a way to make the screen reader know that a number is
a phone number or street address so it reads 2-9-1-6 instead of
2,916?
To which I have replied (in part):
You can mark up a phone number (indeed, a whole address) using
semantic hCard microformat markup:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard>
Hopefully, in time, the authors of screen readers and similar
software will include recognition of that standard.
At Web Directions http://webdirections.org last week, Derek
Featherstone talked about the potential benefits of ufs for
accessibility right long these lines, and even did an aural tails-
like mockup of how a screen reader might read content for a page with
hCards and hCalendar content. It was pretty exciting stuff - the
podcast should be online soon
john
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