WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: address tag

for

From: Tim Beadle
Date: Feb 15, 2007 2:10AM

On 15/02/07, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I use the address tag on my contact page. However, the default with my
> websoftware is italics so I changed the style. For me it is just a quick
> way to format on that page and try to get in the practice of using sematic
> tagging.

<address> has been around for so long, but is not treated in any
special way. I'd say it's not especially relevant.

> I thought sematic tagging (e.g. cite, acryonm, abbr) was/is going to be more
> important in the future. Is it true that sematic tagging is the wave of
> the future?

It's good to use the elements that we have (including the ones you
mention) but they're quite limited in scope. If you want some semantic
goodness here and now, rather than when the capital 'S' and 'W'
Semantic Web arrives, have a look at Microformats:
http://microformats.org/ which basically uses existing HTML elements
and attributes to give content meaning.

I did a presentation on Tuesday about Microformats. The slides are here:
http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/presentations/microformats/

Best regards,

Tim