[thelist] Remove break after H# tags

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Wed Feb 20 11:43:01 CST 2002


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Peter

What I thought Kevin was suggesting was to *not* use <hx> but
to use normal text styled to *look* like headings (large, bold
etc), which would give you more control over linebreaks and
spacing because some UAs don't apply the full range of CSS
capabilities to <hx>.

This would cause significant accessibility issues.

My recommendation would absolutely be to use <hx> but
to style it with CSS to look the way you want, as you suggest.

(of course, if headers now aren't distinguished from normal
text, this might cause usability issues, but that's another story)

Cheers
Martin




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> *cough*Accessibility*cough*
>
> Seriously, Kevin, HTML is a structural and semantic language. Non-visual
> browsers and other UAs absolutely rely on the document structure to
> understand the content. Using <h#> properly is one of the highest
priority
> accessibility requirements.

Hey Martin,
how does making h1 *look* different with a stylesheet affect accessibility
in any way?? Surely you can still use these tags properly and make them
*look* more or less any way you like, as long as it makes visual sense?
Please let me know, I really want to know the argument.



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