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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