title-trigger
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Title trigger
An alternative to the abbr-design-pattern, to address that pattern's accessibility issues.
Contributors
Author: Andy Mabbett Original idea: Patrick Lauke
Proposal
Use a class name; say "ufusetitle" (for "microformat, use title") or something equally unlikely to otherwise occur in the wild, on any element, to trigger the use of the title attribute.
e.g. <span class="dtstart ufusetitle" title="2007-08-16">16th August this year</span>
Conversion
All existing and new microformats should use this pattern; abbr-design-pattern should be deprecated, but parsers should still be required to recognise it on legacy pages (perhaps for a period of, say, three years)
Advantages
- Works on any element
- Usable on CMSs (e.g. MediaWiki) which do not allow use of
abbr - Easy for parsers to adapt
Disadvantages
- ???