On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Galen Charlton <gmcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mike Rylander <mrylan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Evergreen (http://evergreen-ils.org/) uses unAPI extensively, so we
>> wouldn't want to see the abbr-title pattern removed, but I don't see
>> any reason to avoid aligning the spec with the value-class pattern a
>> bit in terms of supported implementation.
>>
>> Note, though, that the value for unAPI is a tag: URI, not human-usable
>> data, so it may be less applicable to unAPI than, say, hCard.  My
>> $0.02 ...
>
> It looks like that the value-title variant [1] of the value-class
> pattern would give us a way to avoid the accessibility problem while
> not inflicting opaque strings meant for machine processing on humans.
>
> [1] 
> http://microformats.org/wiki/value-class-pattern#Parsing_value_from_a_title_attribute
>

But, isn't that exactly what unAPI specifies today in an <abbr>?

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