[Maturity] Common HTML Entities

Colleagues:

During today's Maturity Model teleconference we noted the value of
cleanly marked up HTML. I even mentioned APA Co-Chairs are considering
whether we might want to design and adopt a cross-platform tool that
would help us enforce certain styling--which is why I've cc'd this email
to the APA Chairs list!

I mentioned I have a bookmark that helps me when I'm editing. It's
actually a W3C resource available here:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Common_HTML_entities_used_for_typography


Note that this does not reference elements such as <q> and </q> for
"smart" quotation marks.

I would note further from my personal experience that sometimes simple
CSS rules can help. In recent years I used CSS to mark quoted text in
dark red in order to keep my colleagues from trying to edit our
quotations! Yes, we can quote, quote less, or quote more; but we can't
edit what we quote from another publication. One would think that would
be obvious, so I tried to make it obvious where those quotes were.

hth!

Janina


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Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:17:24 UTC