Re: Minutes from 16 November 2000 WCAG WG telecon

At 7:38 AM -0800 11/23/00, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>  >> What are background and font called in semantic markup?
>  >Background and font rarely have a semantic meaning, but when they do there
>  >are better alternatives:-
>To me, Background and font are semantic.

To help Anne, because I speak both her language and Sean's --

Background and font are semantic because they convey content and
meaning which is important to the author.  Graphical content and
visual formatting content are valuable information and not necessarily
just "window dressing."

--Kynn
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Thursday, 23 November 2000 11:42:14 UTC