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Re: Importance of some semantic inline HTML elements?

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From: TJ McElroy
Date: Oct 21, 2021 1:25PM

Hi,

I am instrested in using your mark down version

How could I get a version to try out?

Thanks,


On 10/21/2021 1:28 PM, Silas wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've been more and more worried about accessibility (specially the
> screen reading part of the thing), although I don't have any
> accessibility needs at the moment.
>
> I'm also a user of some simple markup languages like Markdown,
> reStructuredText and others. Since none (?) of them take accessibility
> issues seriously, I started to devise my own Markdown-like language
> that can output some important HTML 5 tags for screen readers. I would
> like, though, to keep the language simple enough by not implementing
> all HTML 5 tags and I would like to know if I can leave some things
> out (specially nested tags).
>
> Some examples:
>
> Definition lists:
> <dl>
> <dt><code>term</code></dt><dd>description</dd>
> </dl>
>
> See the "<code></code>" tag? Is it at all necessary inside a <dt></dt>
> tag?
>
> Also, is there any difference between <strong> and <em> (for the
> screenreader) at all?
>
> How important it is to mark different language content with
> <span="xx">term</span>?
>
> Please, realize that all my questions are about inline elements.
>
> I ask this because I've been making some tests with NVDA for Windows
> and TalkBack for Android and I see no difference if I use these tags
> or not. It seems much more important to use tags that makes difference
> for user navigation, like correctly using headers (<h1>, <h2>, ...)
> for titles, links descriptions, bullet or definition lists, etc. Also,
> aria-hidden="true" attribute seems really important for ASCII diagrams
> in <pre></pre> blocks.
>
> Thank you very much.
> > > > --


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