- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:17:48 +0100
- To: "Henrik Edlund" <henrik@edlund.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, <site-comments@w3.org>, <rigo@w3.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
"Henrik Edlund" <mailto:henrik@edlund.org> wrote:- > If I look at the use of the address element it seems to be > more of a way to make text italic [...] Please don't. If you want to make text italic, at least use the <i> element, but really you are probably wanting to add emphasis to the text, in which case you should be using <em>. cf. WCAG 1.0 [1]:- [[[ Using markup improperly -- not according to specification -- hinders accessibility. Misusing markup for a presentation effect (e.g., using a table for layout or a header to change the font size) makes it difficult for users with specialized software to understand the organization of the page or to navigate through it. [...] ]]] Using <address> to make text italic, you are confusing people who's browsers don't display as italic for a start, and confusing anyone who interpret the semantics of the <address> element as intended - e.g. people who are extracting data about a page using XSLT, or people who use screen readers and have it set up to read address differently (perhaps with a prompt). [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-structure-presentation -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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