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RE: <em> v. <i> and <strong> v. <b>

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Sep 5, 2003 9:16AM

I too have been surprised by the deprecation lists: <font> is gone but <b>
and <i> are not, yet all three are presentational. However, <strong> and
<em> have a logical significance and would/should be interpretted by speech
readers with a different voice (of one sort or another) than <b> and <i>
which are only visual and speech readers would/should not read them any
different than unstyled text.

Does not FP have the option of inserting <strong> in place of <b> and <em>
for <i>?

Jules

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