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Re: Emphasized Text in PDFs

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Oct 22, 2013 2:59PM

Just to follow from Steve's point:

The reason to prefer em & strong is for improved semantic structure.
There's no functional difference for any (?) existing AT.

Patrick

At 01:02 PM 10/22/2013, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> >But this only works if strong or em are used as opposed to b or i in HTML
>
>I don't believe this to be the case, its the font style that AT pick up not
>the semantics of the elements.
>
>--
>
>Regards
>
>SteveF
>HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
>
>
>On 22 October 2013 20:34, David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Lucy,
> >
> > I know that screen readers and other AT don't announce emphasized text by
> > default, but I believe there are ways to investigate it if you want. But
> > this only works if strong or em are used as opposed to b or i in HTML, I
> > believe. I was just trying to find out if PDF authors need to do anything
> > special to emphasized words in order for AT users to be able to investigate
> > it if they want.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David