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Re: <strong> vs <em>

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From: Hunt, Jan
Date: Feb 13, 2007 1:20PM

Tim wrote -
"Use strong and em" is such a mantra, though. It was WCAG 1, if I
recall correctly, that made the recommendation. It wouldn't be the
first time that the w3c and the real world were, let's say, not
entirely close :p

And Jan says -
Thanks, what I gather here is that all the talk about using <strong> and
<em> because screen readers will read that text differently was a theory
that never got put into action.

I felt kind of stupid telling folks in my department to use <strong> and
<em> instead of <b> or <i> (where appropriate) so the screen readers
would place inflection on that text, only to find out that screen
readers ignore <strong> <em> <b> and <i>. One day, while listening to a
page, it dawned on me that there was no inflection created by using any
of those tags.