[uf-discuss] Best practice for the abbr pattern

[Jeremy Keith]

This is another response to the WaSP post about screen reader issues  
with the abbr pattern:
http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/

As I pointed out in a comment on the post, their example uses the  
condensed form of the datetime, e.g.:

title="20070312T170000"

This currently causes problems for screen readers as they attempt to  
read the numbers as one long string.

However, the datetime can also be written with dashes and colons like  
this:

title="2007-03-12T17:00:00"

http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern

Would everyone agree that, for the sake of screen reader users, we  
should update the wiki to strongly encourage this more verbose  
version of datetimes and strongly discourage the contracted version?

Some test results can be found here:
http://dotjay.co.uk/tests/screen-readers/date-time/#test-microformats

Bye,

Jeremy

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