[#906, #907, #908, #909] Presentation elements

The following is a proposal for HTML techniques. I will implement the proposal in a draft unless there is objection from the group. There will still be room for debate of the proposal in the context of the next draft.

Issue 906 [1] proposes we forbid the B element; 907 [2] says the same for I, 908 [3] for BASEFONT, and 909 [4] for FONT. These are all presentational elements. There is a placeholder technique to replace presentational elements with CSS [5]. I propose we list these elements in that technique.

[1] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=906
[2] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=907
[3] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=908
[4] http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=909
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20040730/#use-css

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