cds-snc / cds-snc/platform-forms-client

Accessibility - Italics use an emphasis tag

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Description

## Description
The only way I found to italicise some texts is the button “I” in the text editors.

But it just tags the text with an `` without any semantic differentiation, and which means emphasis. I could not find a way to italicise a law or a title with `` for example.

## Expected behaviour
Would it be possible to not use an emphasis semantic to italicise (as this is not the same than emphasis), and to provide a way to `` or `` texts.

Otherwise this could result to a WCAG failure of SC 1.3.1.

## Additional context
Reported in [Freshdesk ticket 18070](https://cds-snc.freshdesk.com/a/tickets/18070).

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