Is Microformat's date-value-pattern fully accessible?
- by Stephen
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.