Are these sections useful?

[Turtle91]

Again….

What you do for your own books is up to you.

When you come here and tell others that it isn’t important, when it actually IS, that’s when I have an issue with it.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Plus, I've no interest in homogenizing my reading experience. I enjoy a little formatting variety.

I'm mostly retaining the original look for the book and just fix the CSS to work better on a wide variety of readers.

For books where I have a physical copy, I will try and match the formatting to that, if it has unique character.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Again….

What you do for your own books is up to you.

When you come here and tell others that it isn’t important, when it actually IS, that’s when I have an issue with it.

How is it important when you are looking at the text on screen and you won't notice any difference?

[Turtle91]

Give it up Jon. If you are REALLY looking for an answer then go back and read the previous posts in this thread PLUS all the other threads where we've discussed these exact same issues (which you obviously didn't listen to there either).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

How is it important when you are looking at the text on screen and you won't notice any difference?

For me, since I format ebooks for others as well as for myself, it is very important. It is not that much extra time and effort to continue those habits into all my ePub editing. Little things such as giving images meaningful alt text can make a great difference for someone who is using AT for a minimal effort on my part.

To me, your attitude is the same as those people who complain about making buildings wheel chair accessible, the "I don't need that so nobody should bother" attitude. You may not need those accommodations but there is that minority that does. Perhaps I might be biased since I did some volunteer work for UBC's Crane library when I was a student there decades back but such is life.

You might even consider how few seem to agree with your opinion compared to the number who disagree?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For me, since I format ebooks for others as well as for myself, it is very important. It is not that much extra time and effort to continue those habits into all my ePub editing. Little things such as giving images meaningful alt text can make a great difference for someone who is using AT for a minimal effort on my part.

To me, your attitude is the same as those people who complain about making buildings wheel chair accessible, the "I don't need that so nobody should bother" attitude. You may not need those accommodations but there is that minority that does. Perhaps I might be biased since I did some volunteer work for UBC's Crane library when I was a student there decades back but such is life.

You might even consider how few seem to agree with your opinion compared to the number who disagree?

If I was editing an eBook for someone who needed AT, I would make sure it followed the rules. As for <em> and <i>, if it was done correctly by the publisher, I would leave it be. I don't fix that sort of thing as I don't use AT.

Where we live is wheelchair accessible. We made sure when the bought it that it could be adapted to be. We had a deck put in and got it with a ramp.