[Jamie]

In a follow up to Building Accessible Sites here is a guide on using semantic markup:

When building a website it is sometimes all too easy to forget that the main thing you are doing is marking up text, many developers use heading and paragraph tags but with the rise of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)] many developers forget about the semantic elements of markup.

Semantic tags are used to markup text that has a meaning other than its content. For example, if I enclose text in the code tag it demonstrates that that text is a example of source code for a computer program.

Here is a list of inline semantic tags that may be useful to you when marking up documents in the future:

• cite - Demarcrate a source citation
• code - Demarcrate a code snippet
• dfn - Indicate a term is defined in the current location
• em - Demarcrate that text should be emphasised
• kbd - Indicate keyboard input
• samp - Indicate that the contents reflect sample output, as from software
• strong - Indicate that text should have a strong emphasis
• sub - Indicate text should be rendered as subscript
• sup - Indicate text should be rendered as superscript
• var - Demarcrate text as a variable name

I hope the above list will help you see how you can use markup to convery not only the text but also its meaning

Jamie