[uf-discuss] Use of <abbr> (also <object>) and Accessibility

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <4514EBB5.8070102 at garyjones.co.uk>, Gazza
<gazza at garyjones.co.uk> writes

>>> Typical use of dates (not times) in prose omit the year,
>>  Nonsense.
>>
>>> as well in sites,
>>> search results for events etc., whereas the example given puts the date in
>>> the prose.  Using the year inline every time a day and month is state is the
>>> edge case.
>>  Again, nonsense.
>
>Don't see any visible dates for the majority of <http://www.westmidland
>birdclub.com/newATOM.htm>

So? That's the last two months.

The last five years:

        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/site/new-2006.htm>
        ...
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/site/new-2001.htm>

have visible year-dates.

Then there are:

        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/birmingham/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/birmingham/field.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/coventry/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/coventry/field.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/kidderminster/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/kidderminster/field.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/solihull/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/solihull/field.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/stafford/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/stafford/field.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/tamworth/indoor.htm>
        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/tamworth/field.htm>

Not to mention every birth- and death- date on Wikipedia, e.g.:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett>

Every record release date:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_Of_The_Moon>

Every battle:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypres#World_War_I>

and a wide variety of other historical events:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_%28moon%29>

Or is "edge case" a euphemisms for "something which inconveniently
doesn't fit my arbitrary world-view"?
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