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The spec lists vertical-align as animatable for the keywords, length and percentage types. There is no indication on how it can animate keyword values though. I think we really want to say that length and percentage values of vertical align animate.
Fixed in http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/rev/5bd89ada5492