stevarino

IDEA! Try this!!!
https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#counters!
That should work, although you now have to worry about browser support

I checked it out too (it would be perfect for weblogs, given their reverse chronological order), and didn’t find anything. The closest thing I could find was this spec, which is HTML 4.0 and anything interesting has been deprecated (meaning it has probably been cut out in xhtml)… Darn.

The nice thing about wordpress is that it does this automatically through semantic markup such as true headings, use of lists and paragraphs, and good support of abbreviations/acronyms.
If you’re really interested in accessability, have you tried bobby?
https://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp