it's on the straw man proposal for the currency, that was linked earlier. Might be just an error there<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal">
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal</a></div><div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Reynen</b> <<a href="mailto:scott@makedatamakesense.com">
scott@makedatamakesense.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Alexandre Van de Sande wrote:<br>
<br>> it looks like again the currency is using a already documented<br>> acessibility problem of abusing the abbr tag.<br><br>> this costs <div class="money"><br>> <abbr class="currency" title="USD">
<br>> <span class="amount">42.67</span><br>> </abbr><br>> </div><br><br>Where do you see this? I don't find it in currency-proposal nor
<br>currency-brainstorming. Wherever it is, I wouldn't worry about that<br>becoming a standard, as it doesn't make any sense.<br><br>> screen readers are taught to , when encoutering and abbr, to read<br>> the title instead of the content, that's why abbr was created. This
<br>> already happens in other microformats and is an error.<br><br>I don't believe there are any microformats that encourage abbr for<br>non-equivalent content such as above. If you know of any, please<br>point them out specifically. The abbr-design-pattern [1]
<br>specifically says "Avoiding using the abbr-design-pattern to re-<br>encode human text or to hide data." There are known issues with abbr<br>being used for content that doesn't read well in screen readers (
e.g.<br>ISO dates) [1], but we don't yet have consensus around an<br>alternative, so for now, we use abbr.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki">http://microformats.org/wiki</a>/abbr-design-pattern<br><br>
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</a>/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alexandre Van de Sande<br><a href="http://www.wanderingabout.com">www.wanderingabout.com</a><br>rio de janeiro
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