2008/5/14 Belov, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Site visitor accessibility: > > Even if a particular screen reader can disable abbreviations or titles > so as not to hear ISO-format dates read, that means that screen reader > would also not read human-friendly titles that have nothing to do with > microformats. Even if your site does not use human-friendly title tags, > there are sites "in the wild" that do, and having the screen readers > suppress these would be a loss.
The whole abbr design pattern is not a very good idea because both the content of abbr element and the value of title attribute should be human-readable text. The right use of abbr element should be like this: <abbr title="human-readable date">2008-5-21T09:22+08:00</abbr> But someone might argue that "2008-5-21T09:22+08:00" wouldn't be a human-readable date. As far as I know, HTML4.01 doesn't offer an attribute for the machine-readable purpose and abbr design pattern seems relatively the best way to do the job, but it's not perfect. -- Zhang, Zhen http://www.lunaticsun.com ( in Chinese only ) _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
