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From: Rebecca Ballard
Date: Feb 12, 2007 1:40PM

Jan,

I can't speak about HomePage Reader, but by default, the jaws settings for
Internet Explorer (and probably Firefox as well as other HTML documents) is
to not pick up changes in font etc. It would really get in the way I have to
say. Screen reader users are going to get emphasis from the words
themselves. My advice would be, don't get hung up about it for screen reader
users.


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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Hunt, Jan
Sent: 12 February 2007 20:16
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>

John Foliot wrote:
Backwards compatibility. It is preferred that you use the <em> and <strong>
elements when required, but because of legacy documents the screen readers
(for now) will read them essentially the same.

Sorry, I didn't make myself real clear on the original question. What I
should have said is "why is it when I use JAWS or HomePage Reader, I hear no
difference in words marked up with any of these tags <i> <em> <b> <strong>
from the basic paragraph text." There is no emphasis or stronger voice
inflections for any of them. Actually, I would never know the tags existed
within my web page had I not coded them myself.

Do you-all hear a difference in the pronunciation of text marked up with any
of these tags?

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:03 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>

Hunt, Jan wrote:
> Why is it that when I use JAWS or HomePage Reader, I detect no
> difference in <em>, <i>, <b> or <strong>?

Backwards compatibility. It is preferred that you use the <em> and <strong>
elements when required, but because of legacy documents the screen readers
(for now) will read them essentially the same.

JF



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darian Glover [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>
>
> <em> renders as emphasized text. <strong> renders as strong emphasized
> text.
>
>
> Darian.
>
>
> On 1/22/07, Gary Williamson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) I' ve heard on the
> grapevine that <strong> shouldn' t be used to emphasise text for
> screen readers as it shouts a word rather than emphasises it! If this
> is the case what can be used as an alternative? I' ve heard <em> can
> be used instead, however, I' m not sure how?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gary
>>