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Re: <strong> vs <em>

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Feb 13, 2007 3:30AM

Rebecca Ballard wrote:
> 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.


I'm not sure I follow you: how do screen reader users get the emphasis
from the words themselves if they are not being read differently? Do
you mean by context? Surely emphasis is used where context alone is not
sufficient?

Penny