On 1 Jul 2008, at 17:01, Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
Since the BBC's request was specifically related to screen readers, we may want to distinguish "machine-readable", "human-readable" and "human-hearable". I think there is less debate re: what is "human- hearable" than there is debate re: what is "human-readable"
The BBC complaint directly refers to both screen readers and the display of unexpected text in tool-tips. It's not just about aural output.
At the core, in breaking with the semantics of an HTML element, we've broken the behaviour of technologies using the element correctly and intelligently (hence my strong opposition to continuing to stretch ABBR outside of textual abbreviations as commonly described by dictionaries: βAn abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase.β β Wikipedia, Apple OSX Dictionary, Dictionary.com)
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