- A sighted person can work out the structure from the visual presentation
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A non-sighted person cannot
- the structure must be present in the markup
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That is why new features were added to forms and tables in HTML 4
- like <caption>
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Text would also benefit from such a treatment
- not h1, h2 etc (which are subject to misuse) but
- nested sections with their own headings
<section>
<h>XHTML</h>
...
<section>
<h>Structure</h>
...
</section>
</section>