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Re: use of <pre> tag

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Nov 5, 2010 12:48PM

The logic chain here doesn't mean current Section 508 standards require
HTML mark up for inline textual information, however, As my previous
email indicated, such content can meet existing standards, it is not
likely to keep meeting accessibility standards for very long. Even if
you had top and bottom of page navigation with skip-navigation links to
start of pre tags it would be 508 compliant in principle, but in
practice its bad.

At the Department of Homeland Security we do not fail such content for
section 508 compliance. It is, again, not good practice however.