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Re: Accessible P Tag Usage

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Mar 18, 2019 9:29AM

Hi,
I think that my next statement comes from the old days, possibly before div tags. I have always put paragraphs inside div tags and have not put just text in them. Does that matter?

Thanks.

Jim



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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2019 8:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible P Tag Usage

On 16/03/2019 22:05, Peter Shikli wrote:
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> The strictest interpretation of these items is that it is required
> that relationships in content are programmatically available,
> including content "... such as a paragraph ...". Is this to be taken
> as saying text should, at a minimum, programmatically be a <p> tag,
> unless there is a more appropriate structural tag?

Taking it at the letter, yes, it could possibly be interpreted that way.
But it's just as valid, semantically, to have text just inside a <div> or similar, so it gets very fuzzy. You could argue that if authors break up sections of text using multiple <br> breaks instead of wrapping things into separate containers (like <p> or similar), it's a failure.
But in general, I'd say this would be a "soft" failure (low severity, low priority) at best (depending on the circumstances of course), and generally I wouldn't bother looking for this sort of failure as most sites I see have much more fundamental problems that cause greater problems.

P
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