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

Issues

Semantics

No known or perceived issues.

Parsers

Existing microformats parsers (such as the Operator extension to Firefox) would need to be updated to handle this proposed alternative to the abbr design pattern. However, this is true of any proposed alternatives.

Complexity

No known or perceived issues.

Assistive Technology

The proposed solutioneen readers don't treat title as a special case on elements other than abbr or acronym (or perhaps a and img, which may need to be excluded from the solution). Is this actually the case? Please create a page for assistive technology title trigger results and add the results of testing there.

Usage in the wild

This design pattern is built on the assumption that the eventually- chosen is not widely used, where it used. Please document examples and references here:

Alternatives

See Also