Hope this helps, Charles Belov SFMTA Webmaster -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:51 AM To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: microformats-discuss Digest, Vol 36, Issue 13 Send microformats-discuss mailing list submissions to microformats-discuss@microformats.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of microformats-discuss digest..." ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:41:25 +0100 >From: "Alasdair King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Request for help from screen reader users > from the BBC >To: "Microformats Discuss" <microformats-discuss@microformats.org> >Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >(snip) >3 Working in web accessibility leads one to mix with highly-technical professional >screenreader users. They should not, I argue, be your target audience. A highly-technical >JAWS user will write a script to get round ABBR problems and distribute it to other users, or >just use the webpages for sighted people, or turn off ABBR again. If microformats take off >then Freedom Scientific will make sure that script ships with JAWS anyway, and all the >vendors will follow suit. I am, therefore, as a professional working in software for vision- >impaired people, not worried about the impact on screenreader users of the ABBR tag, since I >think the temporary and minor disbenefits are outweighed by the major benefits. >(snip) I am worried, because if ABBR titles are suppressed then they can't be used for their legitimate use to expand abbreviations, and we are left with a Gresham's Law of Attributes where nonstandard uses of attributes drive out standard uses of attributes. Hope this helps, Charles "Chas" Belov SFMTA Webmaster _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
