title: Is it ok to use <strong> in place of <b> blindly?
body: <p><strong>Note:</strong> I know <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> is presentational and <code>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold&gt;</code> is a better way, and <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> are for emphasis but my question is not regarding this.</p>
  
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  <p>Should we convert every <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> to <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> blindly? Many people do this, they think <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> is not good as per web standards so they convert every <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> to <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> upon site redesign, content re-population, new site design and people suggest this to others also.</p>
  
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  <p>Dreamweaver has also given the option to convert all <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;i&gt;</code> to <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> on code paste in design view and when we use B and I Which people use blindly.</p>
  
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  <p>And Dreamweaver (if above option is checked) and many online WYSIWYG editor give output in <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> while button shows <strong>B</strong> and <em>I</em>.</p>
  
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  <p>In my opinion it's creating a misconception about <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;b&gt;</code></p>
  
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  <p>When we get content from a client we don't know where the client wants to give emphasize and where he just wants to use bold text for presentation purposes. What should we do in this circumstance? No one has the time to give to decide for each instance (us and the client), whether it should be <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;i&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;em&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>What are the pros and cons to convert every <code>&lt;b&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;i&gt;</code> into <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> blindly if we are saying our site is accessible?</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Update:</strong> remember <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2235450/why-html-5-still-have-support-for-presentational-elements"><code>&lt;b&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;i&gt;</code> are not deprecated they are in HTML 5 specification</a></p>