- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:28:05 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > I believe T.V. Raman actually has styling for <b> and <i> in his > browser. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Users marking things up in > bold and italic do mean something with it. It's just that you (the > editor) can't determine what it is and therefore they are good elements > to use. Using <strong> and <em> instead would likely be very wrong when > the document mentions a lot of ship names, for instance. Raman is a technologically savvy user. Does that (aural) styling also happen for other screen reader users? Also, if he has styling for <b> and <i>, he'll also hear ship names marked with <i> the same way that he hears wrongly emphasised pieces of text marked up with <i> ... I can't remember where it originated, exactly, but I seem to remember some discussion a while ago about whether or not ship names should be marked up via <cite>, as in "citing the ship's name". Of course, marking them up naively with <em> would not be right, and it's certainly not what we're saying either. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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