Laura Lis ScottJun 23, 2024

In Safari’s “reader mode” so many websites are confusing, esp newspapers, magazines & journals

Disable reader mode & see the problem: headings, blockquotes & image captions styled visually only, without basic semantic markup

wtf webdevs?

Essential #accessibility STARTS w #SemanticMarkup that designates what’s a heading, what’s a block quote, what’s an image caption…

Semantic #HTML is not new. Even #HTML5 is 16 YEARS old! Use the tools handed to you

/me stops shaking fist, gets off soapbox

🔏 Matthias WiesmannMay 20, 2024
Schema.org 27.0 has been released. #schemadotorg #semanticmarkup #knowledgegraph
https://schema.org/docs/releases.html
Release listing - schema.org

Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.

Show threadMark GardnerJan 3, 2024
@chriscoyier Before everyone became afraid of being publicly shamed for insufficiently #SemanticMarkup, the <TABLE>, <FONT>, and <CENTER> #HTML tags enabled authors to reason about the rendering of a page without having to flip through layers of in-page and external #CSS
David DorwardNov 23, 2022
I’m doing a code review and pointing out places where #accessibility could be improved with #ARIA and #semanticMarkup . I’m pleased to be getting positive reactions from the team instead of notes that accessibility isn’t in the spec for the fixed price project.
David C. Norris 🇺🇦 🗽Nov 12, 2022
So it looks as if I should have been using #SemanticMarkup in #ImageDescriptions to support #ScreenReaders? I suppose I'll have some corrections to make once we get the #EditButton! #accessibility https://help.siteimprove.com/support/solutions/articles/80000448460-accessibility-bold-vs-strong-and-italic-vs-emphasis
Accessibility: The use of emphasis in text

Creating emphasis within text is valuable for getting a message across. It helps indicate to the reader that they should take note of particular words and phrases. Using emphasis aids in scanning the content for a person who is sighted, for exam...

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Doc Edward Morbius ❌​Mar 3, 2020

A study looking at the prevalence of specific semantic HTML elements within a corpus would be ... interesting.

Does anyone know of one?

E.g., which elements out of, say, p, ul, ol, li, i, b, em, strong, a, h1 ... h6, blockquote, img, table, are most and least commonly found?

#HTML #semanticMarkup #research