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Re: HTML5 and new elements (was Re: Use of SAMP to highlight search results)

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 28, 2010 2:18PM

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

> Again, it's up to browsers to decide if there will be a default styling.

And my point was that this is bad, one of the threats to accessibility in
HTML5.

The good old HTML specifications even said that browsers _must_ render EM
and STRONG elements differently from each other and from normal text. And
that's what browsers generally do, though non-visual browsers may deviate
from this, for partly understandable reasons.

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