Re: Empty <P> Tags For Spacing

I think my point was more a quibble with the idea that the point of the
screenreader is to read the html, it is to give you a way of understanding
what is in the html page without needing to see it, the only purpose a
blank p element could serve is visual (even if it is a poor implementation
of that  visual requirement and better left to css) as such it is not
useful to tell you, hey there is some blank space here. Does blank space
have semantic meaning?

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 1:40 PM David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 09/02/2022 11:43, bryan rasmussen wrote:
> >
> > I would say it is the SR's job to turn a visually understood medium into
> > an auditorily understood medium
>
> I think you are interpreting "screen reader" too literally.  Screen
> readers for web pages are rather more audio renderers for underlying
> HTML, than simply things that scrape screen contents and read it.  The
> only reason they really need to get close to reading the screen is
> because of poor quality of semantic markup in the real world.
>
>