[whatwg] [web-apps] 2.7.8 The i element

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Apr 16 07:09:44 PDT 2005


On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Dean Edwards wrote:
> 
> The only reason I can think of for using a <name> element is that screen 
> readers might stress the words differently. Of course, current readers 
> sound like daleks to this would be a case of future-proofing.

I imagine screen readers would have to have a lot more context than just 
"this is a name" to do that right.

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