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Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3cbug@gmail.com> 2011-06-16 18:26:49 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> A lot of times, perhaps the majority of the time, authors use <em> or <strong>
> to make text italic or bold, when in fact the intention has nothing to do with
> emphasizing or strongly emphasizing the text. The result is terrible in aural
> browsers and extremely hard to understand.
What aural browsers did you test in? When I tested in JAWS some time ago, it
ignored <em> and <strong>. Is there some resource that explains various
screen-readers' support for various HTML tags in practice?
> Is there any way this practice could be discouraged, other than reintroducing
> <i> and <b> which can be ignored by an aural browser?
They already have been introduced.
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