- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:50:05 -0600
- To: "Will Miller" <wmiller@adaptiveenvironments.org>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Will Smith wrote <blockquote> Does anyone have any suggestions or opinions on how to accessibly show emphasis in an HTML document? Is using a * generally considered a best practice? Are there good alternatives? </blockquote> There are two elementsthat can be used: I want to stress that something is <em>really</em> important...: the word "really" would be rendered in italics by most browsers <strong>Note:</strong> The following material is...: The word "Note" and the colon will usually be rendered in boldface. CSS can be used to change the visual presentation if the defaults don't suit you. Some screen readers can be set to change pitch or voice when they encounter bolded or italicized text. Hope that helps.
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