On 4/27/07 10:47 AM, "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, > > On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Jeremy Keith wrote: >> However, the datetime can also be written with dashes and colons >> like this: >> >> title="2007-03-12T17:00:00" >> >> http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern >> >> Would everyone agree that, for the sake of screen reader users, we >> should update the wiki to strongly encourage this more verbose >> version of datetimes and strongly discourage the contracted version? > > Can you confirm that: > > a) This will in fact solve the screen reader problem That's much too big a request ;) It's also unnecessary. As long as there is improvement, it is worth the change. And the improvement is reading it as "two thousand seven [pause] three [pause]... " etc. rather than "twenty million ...". > b) This still conforms with all the relevant W3C recommendations ISO8601 is an ISO standard, not W3C. That being said, the W3C *note* (not recommendation) date and time which is a profile (subset) of ISO8601: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime actually recommends using the "-" and ":" separators explicitly. I will add an informative reference accordingly to hCalendar for better reference findability. > If so, then I'd agree with you, as the hyphenated version is also > more human-readable, and thus seems in keeping with microformat > philosophy. Yes the "hyphenated date is more human readable than unhyphenated" argument has been before, and as you say, is preferred per microformat principles. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
