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Re: strong vs. bold questions

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From: Nick Wilson
Date: Mar 10, 2002 4:10PM

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* and then Kynn Bartlett declared....
> At 1:44 PM -0800 3/10/02, Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns wrote:
> >On another list (webdesign-L <http://www.webdesign-l.com/>;) the
> >question came up about using <strong> vs. <b> and why and when. I
> >thought I'd ask this here, too.
>
> Whenever there's a good semantic tag to use, such as <strong> or
> <em>, use that. Other such HTML elements that could be useful
> are things like <samp>, <abbr>, <h4> or <blockquote>.

Yeah, judgement call. I use both. Sometimes you need to just make
something stand out visually but it doesn't really make a difference to
the content so use <b>
If it make a difference to a screen reader for example use <strong>
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