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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Sep 27, 2017 9:31AM

thanks everyone, I will pass this all on to the developer

Sarah Ferguson
Web Accessibility Specialist
Department of Digital Communications
Brandeis University *|* 781.736.4259
www.brandeis.edu/web-accessibility


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:48 AM, Karl Brown < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> If you're using semantic mark-up there's no reason the unicode character
> couldn't form part of the CSS instead; the meaning is to indicate that it's
> a quote, which the semantics should be handling. The quote mark is a
> presentational/stylistic choice and shouldn't really form part of the
> mark-up, as Allan said.
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Detlev (testkreis) <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > I think if it is a block quote you should mark it up with blockquote
> > element
> >
> > Von meinem iPad gesendet
> >
> > > Am 26.09.2017 um 23:30 schrieb Sarah Ferguson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> > >
> > > I posted this already, but didn't get any replies. Just in case it was
> > > missed, here is the replay.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a question from our developer that I could not answer. Any
> > thoughts?
> > >
> > > - Quotes:
> > >
> > > We have a large, stylized quotation mark to signal a pull quote on some
> > > pages. At the moment we have it marked up as a quotation in the code.
> Our
> > > developer asks, "
> > > would it be equally acceptable to include the curly quote (&#8220;) in
> > the
> > > HTML and style that with CSS?"
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Sarah
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>
>
>
> --
> Karl Brown
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>
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> University of South Australia, 2015
> > > > >