Is Microformat's date-value-pattern fully accessible?

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Published on 2010-05-04T04:28:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 4:38 UTC
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Has there been an announcement (outside microformats.org) that the value-class-pattern is fully accessible?

e.g. given <abbr class="value" title="2008-06-24">this Tuesday</abbr>, will a screen reader say "24 June 2008" or will it say "2008 dash 6 dash 24"?

History

Microformats came along, and were great, except that dates etc were stored in abbr tags:

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070312T1700-06">
  March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time
</abbr>`

This lead to screen readers doing ridiculous things as noted in hAccessibility. Now that microformats.org have released the value-class-pattern it's a lot better.

But I'm left unable to find a declaration from WaSP (or another accessibility source not directly tied to microformats) that declaratively states that they are now accessible to screen readers etc.

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