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Article by Bruce Lawson and James Craig, raising accessibility issues with the use of some microformats, and specifically the abbr design pattern.

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Microformats.org - The official microformats site. Contains the development wiki, mailing-list information and scripts to create the major microformats.

• Operator - Firefox extension to handle microformats from within your computers Firefox. Contains data formats intro, changelog, and user comments.
• hCard Validator - Tool which validates microformatted hCards against the current computers specification. Also provides helpful and educational hints about computers hCards.
• Alex Faaborg: Microformats - A series of blog posts giving an introduction to microformats and how these are to be handled in Firefox 3.
• WP Microformatted Blogroll - WordPress Plugin to create a microformatted XFN-hCard.
• Microformats Dublin Core in a few (and easy) steps - A brief tutorial for creating microformats following the Dublin Core meta-data standards.
• Microformats Icons - Icons to use for microformats.
• Microformatique - A weblog about microformats.
• hResume Project - WordPress plugin to display a resume marked up microformats in a microformats hResume microformat.
• hAccessibility - Article by Bruce Lawson and James Craig, raising microformats accessibility issues with the use of some microformats, microformats and specifically the abbr design pattern.
• BBC Radio Labs: Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes - Article explaining the decision to remove certain microformat markup from BBC pages on accessibility grounds.
• XML.com: What Are Microformats - Micah Dubinko asks what microformats are and whether microformats they are here to stay.
• Wikipedia: Microformat - Explanation of microformats with examples of its usage.

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