In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
This is for both for screen readers and disabiguation of dates such as
3/2/2006 or 02-03-06.
That's an important consideration.
As I'm to believe, screen readers will read out both parts of the date
information. As such, having the title as 4 July 1776 will mean the
screen reader will read
"The Constitution of 4 7 76 4 July 1776"
Behaviour of inadequate user-agents should not be a driving factor; for
all we know, a user agent with better behaviour might be released next
week, or next month, or...
Our responsibility is to publish valid, semantically-meaningful markup,
not to pander to the former.
As the title is currently for screen readers or to disambiguate the
date, it should be kept in a human understandable format.
The Constitution of <abbr title="4 July 1776">4/7/76</abbr>
Then why doesn't that apply to dtstart and dtend, for example?
There is some very useful information from the Manual of Style on the
formatting of dates and numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numb
ers%29
The following is a direct quote of the relevant parts.
Incorrect date formats
[...]
That's "incorrect" according to the pretences of Wikipedia's
administrators; not by any other authority.
--
Andy Mabbett
<http://www.pigsonthewing.org.uk/uFsig/>
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