Re: Font Family failure

On 14/01/2017 20:43, Wayne Dick wrote:
> A mechanism exists to customize font-family,  spacing, color. Authors
> need to identify if they are just using <span> and <div> for
> presentation reasons only so that this use can be programmatically
> determined.

You can't expect authors to do that. <span> and <div> are defined as 
being presentational / not carry any semantics, so you must assume 
that's how they're being used.

Paradoxically, the only authors that would perhaps be willing to do this 
(because it's a technique/mechanism in WCAG 2.x) are exactly the authors 
that would already know to use appropriate semantic markup and not just 
generic <span> or <div> elements...so there's really no point?

P
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