WCAG seems to say use semantic markup for special text. <b> and <i> qualify as semantic markup in HTML5. Therefore I see no reason not to use those tags.
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WCAG seems to say use semantic markup for special text.
<b>and<i>qualify as semantic markup in HTML5. Therefore I see no reason not to use those tags.