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From: Rebecca Ballard
Date: Feb 14, 2007 2:20PM

For jaws settings you'll find ALT + insert + s will give you the list of
schemes or look in the configuration manager, speech and sounds manager for
the full poosibilities.


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Hunt, Jan
Sent: 14 February 2007 20:21
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>

Rebecca wrote -
Just to clarify my earlier comments, screen readers (or at least Jaws) _can_
differentiate, it's just that most users don't switch the facility on.

JAN-
That's what I thought might be happening but I have not found anywhere
within the JAWS or HomePage Reader software, nor within their documentation,
anything that talks about turning on any such capability.


John wrote -
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

JAN -
I think your 2 cents is excellent advice and I do continue using <strong>
and <em> just in case screen readers start to recognize them.
But, I now point out that logic when I ask that my designers use <strong>
and <em> instead of <b> or <i>

Again, thanks everybody!

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Ballard [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:40 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>

Hi all,

Just to clarify my earlier comments, screen readers (or at least Jaws) _can_
differentiate, it's just that most users don't switch the facility on.


Rebecca

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of John Foliot -
Stanford Online Accessibility Program
Sent: 13 February 2007 20:21
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] <strong> vs <em>

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