I work for Blind Services. This was an interesting question, so I sought out two folks that use speech and benefit from coding correctly.
The two blind folks that use speech , one an English major, one a verse writer, noted they would prefer that the code was done so verses equate to paragraph. They don't want to read poems as lists. And both often use the paragraph level to read poems to better enjoy them. Paragraph by line, they both noted would make it too choppy if using the paragraph level to read the poem. So, I'd use the paragraph code at the front of the verse, each line having a line break. From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Frances de Waal Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:42 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] breaks, lists in a form or not, and more or less divs Hi there, May I ask your opinion about some semantic/HTML basics? In case of a poem, if I place every verse in a paragraph, what do I do with each line of text in the verse? Is this one of the very few occasions to use breaks? A verse doesn't seem a list to me... or is it? I like your opinion. In the very few tutorials I have seen about how to markup a form semantically, both were using a list in the form. To me that seems totally unneccessary plus too much markup. Does anyone know what can be the reason of doing it that way? InContextEditing, the online CMS from Adobe, needs a extra div for every editable region. This makes me avoiding the tool. Some keep saying that extra divs don't make any difference to a page at all. I agree they have no meaning semantically, but they do create extra code which is not neccessary for the content. But then again, we don't talk about 100 divs here. So, besides of best practice, is there any place where the extra divs may have bad influence? Frances de Waal www.waalweb.nl <http://www.waalweb.nl/> ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
