Best way to markup standards compliant symbols

 
HI,
 
I am wondering which would be the most and best way to achieve standards
compliant symbols such as commas and apostrophes?
 
I.e. & > etc,
 
Do they have to be coded characters or can they be regular text?
 
Kind regards

Richard Mery BA (hons) 

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From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Phill Jenkins
Sent: 12 March 2009 15:42
To: David Poehlman
Cc: Ryan Jean; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org
Subject: Re: IE8



I would recommend that you ask Microsoft - or at least read their web
site - see http://www.microsoft.com/enable/news/newsletter/mar09.aspx 

And I would recommend you ask the AT vendors who support it, like
Freedom Scientific's JAWS support, AiSquared's ZoomText support, and
open source things like NVDA, etc. 

Regards,
Phill Jenkins, 
IBM Research - Human Ability & Accessibility Center
http://www.ibm.com/able
U.S. Access Board
http://www.access-board.gov/




David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net> 
Sent by: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org 

03/12/2009 08:40 AM 

To
"Ryan Jean" <ryanj@disnetwork.org> 
cc
<w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> 
Subject
Re: IE8

	




no.

On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Ryan Jean wrote:

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-
family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-
decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-
style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;}
@page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}
div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->
Does anyone agree that IE8 will have far more accessibility features  
than either IE6 or IE7? And that it will be the most accessible out of  
all browsers?



Sincerely,
Ryan Jean

Assistant IT Specialist

The Disability Network

Flint, MI




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