-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis Sent: Monday, 17 December 2007 7:33 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns
Manu Sporny wrote: > There are really two questions that we're attempting to answer here: > > 1. Can we make screen readers not read the @title, of whatever element > we choose, out loud? > 2. Do we care that "PT2M23S" will appear if the person browsing hovers > their cursor over the text denoting the duration, if that is the only > way we can successfully utilize ISO standards in the Microformats > community? >I think it's clear that with a bit of testing we can find a markup >pattern, albeit not necessarily a pretty one, where human-hostile data >is not read aloud or shown on hover. I'm a bit concerned that if important machine readable data is completely hidden, people will forget to update it when they update the page. I thought that is one of the reasons title was chosen in the first place. (showing it on hover in many browsers would act as a reminder for authors to update it) _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
