- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:11:42 +0000
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Is the common abbreviation of cutting out the first 2 digits of the year an > accessibility problem? > > 2003 = '03 or 2004 = '04. Not accessibility per se, but personally I find such abbreviated years pretty unreadable for years prior to the '20s, and generally prefer full years even for the '20s and later (I would have said 1920s or 2020s but I couldn't make my mind up what '20s would mean these days without a context - that in itself can make it something to avoid). If I was marking up text that contained '03 in it and for some reason didn't want to change the text as presented (say I was quoting and wanted to be faithful to the quote) I would probably use <abbr>. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> *Thought provoking quote goes here*
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