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Re: evaluating accessibility with WCAG 2.0 (Angela French)

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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 11, 2011 9:21AM

Awesome discussion. I'd like to know how screen reader users experience the <p> tag. Is it transparent? Does it have semantic meaning? Do you expect a certain content when you encounter one? I am a sighted user. But to me, harkening back to early days of elementary school grammar, a paragraph is a distinct portion of writing that contains a particular thought or idea, and consists of at least one sentence, usually more. If a <p> tag has that same meaning to a screen reader user, wouldn't a bunch of hyperlinked words separated by a pipe be a nonsense sentence?