1.3.1

Two questions in as many days! Sorry!

The way I have always read 1.3.1 is if there is semantic information conveyed through visual styling, then it must be programmatically determinable. This does not however imply the converse (that all programmatic information be conveyed visually)

However!

Surely, the purpose of semantic mark-up is that it reflects meaning. If it has been used completely randomly so that it does not reflect information and relationships within the page correctly then this should fail? For example, if parts of the page have been marked up with list mark up that aren't lists. If you disabled the CSS and suddenly random bits of the page are bullet pointed because the underlying list mark-up, that would be confusing, and that's what screen readers users are 'seeing'.

And removal of the bullet points is a form of visual styling too - instead of starting with a documents with no semantics and visually conveying them, they have started with a document with erroneous semantics and visually hidden them?

Thanks

Sarah

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