title-trigger

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Title trigger

An alternative to the abbr-design-pattern, to address that pattern's accessibility issues.

Contributors

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 that element's 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)

Class names

Other potential class names include:

  • hsource
  • hvalue
  • uftitletrigger
  • ...

Advantages

  • Simple
  • Works on any element
  • Usable on CMSs (e.g. MediaWiki) which do not allow use of abbr
  • Easy to learn
  • Ease of authoring
  • Easy for parsers to adapt

Disadvantages

  • ???

Alternatives

See Also