[rfc-i] Graceful degradation is key, was: Re: draft-hildebrand-html-rfc

[Julian Reschke]

On 2012-07-14 11:34, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> ...   But in some cases we'd still have to limit ourselves to make sure 
we're compatible with devices (and people) that lack certain 
capabilities. So the difference between regular and italic text can't be 
semantically meaningful, because that difference isn't there on some 
character based terminals or in screen readers. ...

As far as I know, screen readers *do* read text differently based on 
markup (such as <em>; not styling).

Best regards, Julian