I didn't want to get into this discussion, but I will now.

Here's a site... www.gracegraphics.be (oh, it's mine - company I work for)

Now... if you dig through all the pages, you'll notice all intro texts have
a lot of "boldness" ;)

Read the bold words only... aha... you get the point of the text.  But I
wouldn't want any text reader to emphasise each word.  It's merely a trick
to fool scan readers in getting the point.  All bold words are keywords.
But emphasising them in a text reader would mean destroying the original
meaning... not emphasising them, but visually attract scan readers to the
right words.


- Kayjey -


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]Namens tim booker
> Verzonden: vrijdag 17 augustus 2001 13:51
> Aan: Bart Szyszka; tim booker; Mike Taylor; Hwg-Techniques
> Onderwerp: RE: I want to make one word Bold
> 
> 
> > Again, it's *not* bad practice to use B or I *unless* they 
> are being used
> > where aural emphasis would be necessary (like within a paragraph of
> > text). It's just as bad to use STRONG and EM when only 
> visual emphasis
> > is intended.
> 
> It's very short-sighted to suggest that STRONG, EM, and other 
> structural
> mark-up ONLY has an impact for the aural emphasis of content.
> 
> STRONG and EM indicate emphasis.  Whether that emphasis is 
> communicated
> aurally or visually is a different matter entirely.  It depends on the
> software that is using the site.  It might be given audible 
> emphasis, it
> might be rendered in bold font, it might be added to a 
> searchable database,
> etc.
> 
> If you want that text rendered in italics, bold, or spoken in 
> a slightly
> faster or richer voice, that is something you should define 
> in your CSS, not
> in your mark-up.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bart Szyszka [mailto:bart(at)gigabee.com]
> > Sent: 17 August 2001 12:31
> > To: tim booker; Mike Taylor; Hwg-Techniques
> > Subject: RE: I want to make one word Bold
> >
> >
> > >So can I infer that you ignored my post regarding aural
> > browsers, indexing
> > >spiders, parsers, etc that you might want to use with your 
> site?  Such
> > >automated processes will look at the structure of your document.
> >  Because of
> > >this, it's bad practice to use formatting tags such as <b> or
> > <i>.  This is
> > >why your code should describe what something IS not how it looks.
> >
> > Again, it's *not* bad practice to use B or I *unless* they 
> are being used
> > where aural emphasis would be necessary (like within a paragraph of
> > text). It's just as bad to use STRONG and EM when only 
> visual emphasis
> > is intended.
> >
> > --
> > Bart Szyszka  bart(at)gigabee.com  ICQ:4982727
> > GigaBee  ...is here to save the Web!
> > http://www.gigabee.com
> >
> >
> 
>  
> 

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