- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:36:06 +1000
- To: "Olivier GENDRIN" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Dec 29, 2007 10:39 PM, Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 1:19 PM, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com> wrote: > > To me: bold, italics and underline are document constructs. They > > aren't rich in semantics. I agree with the point that it can't be > > determined what italics "means". But it might make sense to a human, > > Even a blind one ? Yes, on the assumption their UA/AT is able to inform them when bold, italics and underline are used (in the same way "link" is announced... I know you didn't think the fact links were blue and underlined was important to blind people.) It won't be able to announce *why* the phrase is underlined, they will need to draw their own conclusions - the same as sighted users.
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