[Bug 12971] 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 extrem

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12971

--- Comment #3 from html5bugs@gmail.com 2011-06-16 18:28:16 UTC ---
OK, then as far as I am concerned this bug is closed. Books and instructional
material have become very adamant about avoiding <b> and <i> at all costs, but
this solution is perfectly satisfactory to me.

For sure using <b> and <i>, according to the guidelines of the 16 June 2011
working draft, is a lot better than using <strong> and <em> when the semantic
meaning of emphasis is not applicable.

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