On 4/29/07, Jeremy Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If we were to find an existing HTML element that was semantically suited to encoding datetime and/or geo information *and* didn't cause problems with assistive technology, then I would jump all over it and agree wholeheartedly that the title-design-pattern should be restricted to that particular element. But I don't believe such an element exists.
the whole discussion begs the question about what people with assistive technologies ACTUALLY think? A while ago there was a whole report about who screen readers fail with AJAX apps, then someone actually ASKED some blind folks if they could navigate the site... they managed to do so just fine. We are naively ASSUMING that people with assistive technologies NEED our help. I would prefer, before WE think we can hand the right soltion down from on high, that someone who uses a screen-reader as their main browser give their feedback. We skirt the issue by moving data to the title attribute of alternative elements, how do we know screen-readers now or later won´t read out those as well? we are coding around a problem by potentiall creating other ones and ignoring the semantics of the HTML spec in the process. -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
