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From: smithj7
Date: Feb 15, 2007 4:00PM

Thanks for sharing this info Patrick. We have one section of our site that
is 100 percent used by persons who are either low vision users or speech
users. (Business Enterprise Program in Florida). I must keep this group of
customers happy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] address tag


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>
>> 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
>