On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, tedd <tedd.sperl...@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:

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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

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