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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Jon - I wonder if you read anyone else’s posts…lol
This has been argued multiple times and you’ve been proven incorrect.
- i/b are visual markups
- em/strong are semantic markups
- MOST devices/apps default to italics/bold for em/strong
- accessibility devices/apps can differentiate between semantics and visual markup and thus emphasize a spoken word differently than an italicized (visual only) word
- your css can be adjusted to display emphasize <em>, or strong, words differently than just italics/bold (color, underline, letter spacing, to name a few)
Just because you choose to leave them as default doesn’t mean everyone has to. Please give it a rest.
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You can also choose to change how <i> and <b> look using CSS. I have never once seen <i>, <em>, <b>, <strong> changed to anything other then the default.