Use strong instead of CSS font-weight Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Use semantic markup like strong instead of using the CSS font-weight property.

Help

Use the strong element instead of the span element for bold text.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 F2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• WCAG 2.1 F2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• WCAG 2.2 F2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)
• Section 508 (2017) F2 (Success Criteria: 1.3.1 level A)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 6.54 Oct 2024 Fixed false positive.
• 6.52 Apr 2024 Fixed false positive on elements with global ARIA attributes.
• 5.39 Nov 2020 Fixed false positive.
• 5.37 May 2020 Fixed false positive.
• 5.36 Jan 2020 Now uses CSS cascade.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccWcag2-F2-3