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               <td valign="top" align="right" nowrap="true" colspan="2" class="requirements">WAI / WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 checkpoint 3.7</td>
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                     The page contains text that is marked up with BLOCKQUOTE or with
                     Q. If this text is not a quotation, then the HTML code should be changed.
                     	 
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                     Please check if the text included in the BLOCKQUOTE (or Q) element in
                     the page is indeed a quotation. 	 
                     	 
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                     If not, consider removing the BLOCKQUOTE (or Q) tag and replace it
                     with a DIV (or SPAN) tag associated to a CSS class that specifies the
                     formatting properties would be achieved with BLOCKQUOTE (or Q).
                     
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                     Misusing these tags (for achieving certain formatting effects) hinders
                     accessibility. When a screen reader or reading browser reads the
                     improperly marked up text, it will use a special voice or pitch to
                     make it clear to the listener that it is a quotation (i.e. a reference
                     to comments made by an outside source).
                     
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                     A listener would be confused if the "quotation" is indeed a part of the
                     content of the page that was simply embedded in BLOCKQUOTE or Q for
                     formatting purposes.
                     
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