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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 19, 2007 1:40PM

Tim Beadle wrote:

> Here is an example of an accessibility benefit of microformats, at
> least in theory:

> -- http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-September/005984.html

That's a rather hypothetical benefit, though. It's a "if we had richer
semantics, and UAs actually understood them, there would be an
accessibility benefit" type argument. Microformats are one way to add
richer semantics, but the same argument can be made for XForms, XHTML
extended/mixed with other XML flavours, etc. Granted, with microformats,
the advantage would be that it's probably backwards compatible.

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Patrick H. Lauke