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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Yeah, that was a new one to me too. I haven't really paid attention to accessibility issues...I haven't needed them...and, visually, my books looked fine. But, life happens. Sometimes things become more important than they used to be. Sooo, I'm trying to do better.
Here's where I learned about the hr tag as a context break.
I don't really approve of their use of <p></p> blank lines on either side of the <hr/>...that's what CSS margin's are for... |
Scroll down on that page; they disagree. (About CSS/margins, etc. FWIW, I agree with you.) And why on earth does one empty paragraph somehow "signal" that something's going to change? Have they
LOOKED at the average, typical, DIY from-Word self-published book?
My question is, if you can use
pictures of an asterism, for crying out loud, (example 2) why not the real thing, or a fleuron? How is an image of asterisks somehow friendlier, accessibility-wise, than a fleuron or 3 asterisks themselves?
It says that it's "suboptimal," but only because they want
uniformity. You can use the alt tag, which we
do, for images, to indicate scene-breaks and the like. That's not sub-optimal. I disagree with their take (and have for a while on this). An HR is
hardly guaranteed to say to someone "oh, hey, here's a scene-break" when
they're used in non-fiction/how-tos for other things.
It's as if nobody
thought about this, the hr/
outside of fiction!!!
Hitch