[uf-new] acessibility problem with currency microformats

[Alexandre Van de Sande]

it's on the straw man proposal for the currency, that was linked earlier.
Might be just an error there
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal


On 7/18/07, Scott Reynen <scott at makedatamakesense.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Alexandre Van de Sande wrote:
>
> > it looks like again the currency is using a already documented
> > acessibility problem of abusing the abbr tag.
>
> > this costs <div class="money">
> >                       <abbr class="currency" title="USD">
> >                               <span class="amount">42.67</span>
> >                       </abbr>
> >               </div>
>
> Where do you see this?  I don't find it in currency-proposal nor
> currency-brainstorming.  Wherever it is, I wouldn't worry about that
> becoming a standard, as it doesn't make any sense.
>
> > screen readers are taught to , when encoutering and abbr, to read
> > the title instead of the content, that's why abbr was created. This
> > already happens in other microformats and is an error.
>
> I don't believe there are any microformats that encourage abbr for
> non-equivalent content such as above.  If you know of any, please
> point them out specifically.  The abbr-design-pattern [1]
> specifically says "Avoiding using the abbr-design-pattern to re-
> encode human text or to hide data."  There are known issues with abbr
> being used for content that doesn't read well in screen readers (e.g.
> ISO dates) [1], but we don't yet have consensus around an
> alternative, so for now, we use abbr.
>
> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/abbr-design-pattern
>
>
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