[uf-discuss] changing abbr-design-pattern to title-design-pattern?

[Jeremy Keith]

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up but there's an interesting  
comment from Lawrence Meckan on the WaSP blog post:
http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/#comment-57838

He's getting good results from up-to-date screen readers with advance  
verbosity settings and this little caveat about the markup:

"I’ve also expanded the abbr pattern to include a span inside it,  
essentially duplicating the semantic structure, in order to do a fix  
for IE6 not styling abbrevations."

If there's a chance that adding an extra span inside the abbr element  
somehow helps screen readers, then that should probably be included  
in the test cases:
http://microformats.org/wiki/assistive-technology-abbr-results

Like I said, we shouldn't get our hopes but it's certainly worth  
investigating.

Bye,

Jeremy

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