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From: Christian Biggins
Date: Jan 15, 2013 7:16PM

Hi All,

I'm aware of the abbr and acronym tags for text, but I dont think there is anything that would allow you to mark up a number semantically?

My use case is a common one, I have a list of tags on a page with the number of occurrences for that tag in parenthesis around it:
Tagname (5)

Of course, screen readers give the '5' no context and its confusing to listen to.
Now, the easy solution would be to wrap the 5 in a span with a title attribute, but I'm wondering if there is a more appropriate way of marking this up?

Thanks in advance.

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Christian Biggins