On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Michael Ang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From what I've been reading it sounds like <abbr> with title is more of a
> problem than <span> with title.  So maybe <span> with title isn't too much
> of a problem in practice?  I suspect that whether the span is empty doesn't
> make a difference *if* the screen-reader is set up to read the title
> attribute of a span.  But having the software set that way seems unlikely(?)

Yeah, the tooltip displaying an ugly serialized ContextObject is kind
of annoying, but I imagine there are hacks around that. The main
problem for screen readers, at least according to that BBC article,
concerns the use of <abbr>.

I didn't mean to stir up a huge debate. I just think libraries
sometimes overlook use of the <link> element to link to alternate
(more machine readable) representations of a web resource. With the
notable exception of  auto-discovery for syndicated feeds (Atom, RSS,
etc).

//Ed