title-trigger

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

• ???

Alternatives

• dfn-design-pattern

See Also

• abbr design pattern
• abbr design pattern issues
• accessibility issues
• assistive technology abbr results
• datetime design pattern