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Accessibility Microformats? (RE: Which should come first -navigation OR content?)

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Apr 26, 2006 9:40AM

> Since we don't have a <navigation> tag right now, it'd be
> great if we (we being web site developers and browser
> developers) simply could all agree on a defacto microformat
> for accessibility enhancements.

Seems like even Bill Gates is pushing for microformats:

http://microformats.org/blog/2006/03/20/bill-gates-at-mix06-we-need-micr
oformats/

I honestly haven't done a lot with them, but they do seem like a useful
tool to address some accessibility issues (in theory, at least).

-Darrel