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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Feb 15, 2007 4:00AM

On 15/02/07, Patrick Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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)...

OK - fair point. There's a debate over this "abuse" of abbr at the
moment, apparently. I was a little dubious about it, I admit.

Tim