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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Feb 15, 2007 3:50AM

> Tim Beadle

> Equally, adding Microformats to web sites will have no negative impact
> on accessibility, while adding richness for everyone.

It's not that simple. Think, for instance, of the use of ABBR for the datetime design pattern

http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern

<abbr class="foo" title="YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+ZZ:ZZ">Date Time</abbr>

Now think of a screen reader user that has "expand titles" or equivalent enabled (because, after all,
that's what we'd want them to do, no? that's the whole point why we use ABBR in the first place). What will they hear? An incomprehensible string of garbeage (the machine-readable ISO datetime)...

P