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Re: no paragraphs in divs

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 26, 2015 1:32PM

> Divs are only for layout and styling purposes, they have no semantic value.

While I agree that the div element has no specific meaning and paragraph should be used, I do not believe this has been identified as a sufficient technique or failure of WCAG. Divs generally work the same way and commands such as control+up and down arrow treat them as container-like paragraphs. Screen readers seem to vary in how they handle this. Some screen readers/speech synthesizers put blank lines between paragraphs when arrowing between p elements. Others don't and simply rely on punctuation for pausing.

Jonathan

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