- From: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:11:59 +0100
- To: "WAI list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Jerry, As someone who is also a tech author, I find this *very* depressing. I hope it isn't really true that hardly anyone uses headings - in my acquaintance, this seems not to be true on the whole, but perhaps I am fortunate in my colleagues? Using headings (and other elements) properly to reflect the structure of a document has been something I do as second nature (whether writing for the web, in Word, or whatever) - but I guess many web designers (and Word document authors) are more concerned by the surface appearance than the semantic nature of the info they are publishing. And it is in providing a way to get to the structure and semantics that headings are key - you have several examples of how this might be used in other posts. Anyway, with styles, it is a doddle to use headings instead of spans - hardly the huge leap that your developer suggests. Redo the style sheet(s), then you can use a global search and replace for static pages, or redo the templates for a CMS. Of course, if span styles were not used consistently, then you are in trouble - but that suggests design problems that need to be addressed anyway. Lois Wakeman ------------------------------------------------------ http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com http://communicationarts.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------
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