Comments on: microformats and accessibility

By: planet facts

planet facts — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:59:18 +0000

Widow eyes can also mean one that stars into the stars for long.

By: dotjay

dotjay — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:18:17 +0000

Using JavaScript to provide a solution may be viable, but impractical in the long term. Personally, I think any solution to this is going to require collaboration from screen reader vendors as well as from the microformats community. However, in my experience, there’s little evidence to suggest that either of these groups are willing to step up to the mark.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:43:00 +0000

Hi Jim – there are some small pockets of excellence, in that regard, but its early days, yet.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:11:12 +0000

Hi Andy, I was interested when I first saw Jeremy Keith demonstrate Tails last year. But the focus there is on exposing data to the end user through the browser. My interest is in publishing archive data to share with other sites or online services. There doesn't seem to have been much done on that front – using microformats to share data between sites.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:44:12 +0000

Ack! last post was by “Andy Mabbett”, not “am” – macro trouble!

By: am

am — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:43:30 +0000

As a user, (rather than wearing my publisher hat) being able to add microformatted events directly to my calendar app is enough for me to advocate microformats – it’s what got me interested in them in the first place. And soon (from v3.0), this functionality will be in Firefox (and shortly afterwards Opera and IE)…