RFC2119 Styling

• From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 15:55:30 -0400
• To: spec-prod <spec-prod@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <949f3b8b-dc75-95e5-3013-c646bbf5444a@inkedblade.net>

Wanted to open a discussion about the <em class=rfc2119>MUST</em> convention:

We have this section in /Guide https://www.w3.org/Guide/manual-of-style/#RFC 
which requires RFC2119 keywords to be encoded in uppercase inside an <em> 
element with some extra styling to make it lowercase small-caps.

I had two questions:

- Is this comfortable for screenreaders, or should we be adopting a different 
markup convention?

- Should this markup be optional or required? Not all specs currently follow 
this style: e.g. some specs just use regular casing, and define all instances 
of these keywords to invoke RFC2119.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:55:40 UTC