Re: Bold links

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > Really? > How does the blind via readers, such as JAWS, understand what a <B> is? > First, never use <B> -- or <I> for that matter. > Second, use <strong> or <em> instead. Readers can understand and render > STRONG and EMPHASIZED text, but not <B> and <I> text -- those tags mean > nothing and that's the reason why they are not encouraged for use and even > removed from XHTML. > Third, if neither of those tags (i.e., <strong> or <em> ) work for you, they > try using a class (or an id) with a css rule of: [OT] Tedd, it seems like you are spreading a little bit of mis-information here. * <i> — was italic, now for text in an “alternate voice,” such as foreign words, technical terms and typographically italicized text * <b> — was bold, now for “stylistically offset” text, such as keywords and typographically emboldened text (W3C:Markup, WHATWG) * <em> — was emphasis, now for stress emphasis, i.e., something you’d pronounce differently (W3C:Markup, WHATWG) * <strong> — was for stronger emphasis, now for strong importance, basically the same thing (stronger emphasis or importance is now indicated by nesting) (W3C:Markup, WHATWG) – http://html5doctor.com/i-b-em-strong-element/ Seems to me the original posted just wanted to "stylistically offset" or "bold" the last name... I dunno, maybe I am wrong, but here's no good reason to stress "stronger" emphasis on the last name. There's a time and a place and a reason to use one over the other. Also, I don't think <b> and <i> have been removed from XHTML... In fact, they are not even deprecated in XHTML. Ok, getting off of my soapbox now. :D [/OT]