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Re: JWAS and special characters pronunciation

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jan 2, 2014 5:06PM

Hi Bevie,

with all due (and honest) respect:

Am 2 Jan 2014 um 19:51 schrieb "Chagnon | PubCom" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> If I want authors, editors, and designers who create content to change their
> behavior and make accessible documents, why tell them to use <UL> and <OL>
> when they're making the HTML version of the document, and <L> when they're
> creating a PDF? This makes it less easy, more confusing to the average
> writer.

this is not how most people create documents. Instead, in the better case, they'd use some 'make this a list and use bullets' or 'make this a list and use numbering' buttons. (In the worse case they put bullets or numbers at the beginning of paragraphs or new lines.)

Then it's up to the tool that saves out the HTML or PDF or … to get the tags right. Yes, the tag sets are organised slightly differently, but it's not big deal. It's only a few developers who have to get the coding right, not the actual user.

Inserting/applying the tags directly/manually is the exception, and should not be the basis for deriving whatsoever rules or recommendations for the general use case.

Olaf