Re: HTML VALIDATOR?

Folks with visual impairments run into trouble with <b> if they are using
assistive technology to access a site because bold is a visual concept.
<strong> gives the "reader" direction   in how to interpret the text.


Marcia E. Daumen, Information Specialist
Health Sciences Library
University at Buffalo
Abbott Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
e-mail: daumen(at)buffalo.edu
tel: (716) 829-3337
fax: (716) 829-2211--On Monday, February 07, 2000, 8:35 PM -0800 Dick
<r.schweiss(at)worldnet.att.net> wrote:



> I just ran one of my sites thru one of those "valdation" utioities, and
> have several questions on some of the "faults" found
> 
> 1st ...  What is the difference between <B> and <strong>  .. refering to
> BOLD text?
>  ("<B> is physical font markup ... use logical  (such as strong"))
> 
> 2nd ... What (or why)is the "necessity" for this ... "img does not have
> ALT text defined ... setting WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes on IMG tag can
> improve rendering performance" ??  .. This was noted on most of my
> imported graphics .... such as divider bars ...
> 
> 3rd ... " illegal value for COLOR attribute of FONT (000000)"  ....
> ??????? .. What other code is there for black .... or any other color?
> 
> The validator used was "WEBLINT GATEWAY"
> 
> ????????????/
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dick S.
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