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Re: <strong> vs <em>

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From: John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
Date: Feb 13, 2007 1:30PM

Hunt, Jan wrote:
>
> 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.

While the current crop of screen reading software may not differentiate
between these elements, there is nothing to say that someday some tool
*will*, and you should never feel stupid about preaching/teaching best
practices, and backwards compatibility

My $0.02

JF