{"id":608,"date":"2013-05-30T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pln.lanecc.net\/webteam\/?p=608"},"modified":"2013-05-30T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:22:56","slug":"drupalcon-portland-and-the-evils-of-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lanecc.edu\/webteam\/2013\/05\/30\/drupalcon-portland-and-the-evils-of-and\/","title":{"rendered":"DrupalCon Portland, and the evils of and "},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, two Lane Web Team members went up to DrupalCon Portland.<\/p>\n

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Did you know Oregon has the world’s largest Foucault Pendulum?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to opportunities to network with other<\/a> institutions<\/a> running Drupal around the state and world, there were a ton of awesome speakers and “Bids of Feather” sessions, where groups of like minded people got together to talk about issues relevant to them. Take a look:<\/p>\n

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This seems like a weird thing to take a picture of, but the BOF listing couldn’t be found on the web anywhere – wifi at conferences is notoriously poor<\/a>, so it wouldn’t have done us much good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second day’s keynote, by Karen McGrane, was about user experience and design, and provided some excellent insights for us (watch it here<\/a>!). The one that will impact you most is our removal of the <i> (italics) and <b> (boldface) elements from the list of allowable elements on Drupal content pages.<\/p>\n

As per why, it has to do with two things: Future Proofing, and Accessibility. Back in the day, when content was designed for paper, boldface and italics made a lot of sense. So the <b> and <i> HTML elements were used to replicate this on the web. But, not too long later, people realized that these elements didn’t actually convey any semantic information – they were purely visual. So they added the <strong> and <em> (emphasis) elements.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s the thing. Strong<\/strong> text, and emphasized<\/em> text look exactly the same as boldfaced and italicized text – this sentence actually uses <strong> and <em> tags. So the average web user won’t notice any difference. But what happens if you’re using some futuristic wearable computing device that reads web pages to you? With <strong>, your device would know to read a certain word or sentence strongly, and to emphasize text in <em> tags. But if they were <b> or <i> tags, you wouldn’t have even known they were there . Turns out this is the same way screen readers work.<\/p>\n

As of this morning, we’re filtering out <i> tags and <b> tags. There’s a 99% chance this doesn’t impact you at all – using the buttons in the WYSIWYG on Drupal automatically uses <em> and <strong> instead. But if you’ve been doing something fancy after disabling the rich text editor, you might need to change your page some.<\/p>\n

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