On May 28, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
Hmm. I think Maciej does have a strong point about interoperability
here. Removing the quotation punctuation with CSS does not help
those with user-designated styles or UAs that ignore such CSS: e.g.
text browsers and screen readers. The question to ask yourself is:
if you could not remove the quotation punctuation and layout, would
you still use <q> and <blockquote>? If a screen reader read (for
example):
quote Dorothy encounters the Lion end quote
That would be rather strange, wouldn't it?
I dunno, I think that might be helpful. It's semantic information that
it's a portion of a larger document. Using a span tag as you suggest
provides the UA with zero semantic information. I suspect having alt
tags that just link to a video which perhaps they don't want to watch
is annoying to people with screen readers -- although I think I would
need a bit more data about how screen readers work and how they're
used to really say anything else.
-Colin
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