- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:54:08 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
2007/5/4, Patrick H. Lauke: > > The difference being...what exactly? In other words: when do you want > to emphasise something that is not important, or conversely if > something is important, wouldn't it also be emphasised? Or is this to > allow for marking something up as important, but without any > distinction in how it's presented? Ads or political programs (you might know we electing our President in France ;-) ) generally mark things up in big fonts, bold and/or a different colour so that without reading at the whole thing you get the "important idea". However, if you were to read the text (and speech it), you wouldn't emphasize those words. Words that need emphasis on the other hand are generally marked up in italics which hasn't the same effect when you just overlook without really reading. By marking things up as being "important", you could ask your screenreader to "extract" the important ideas from the page. If one interests you, ask for more context (i.e. read the phrase or paragraph). This might be a new way of navigating documents with screenreaders (because <strong> is already almost always presented in bold font, you can already do this if you're not blind). So yes, there *is* a difference between <strong> and <em>. -- Thomas Broyer
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