#semanticmarkup — Public Fediverse posts

Structured, semantic markup, you say?

https://www.pootlepress.com/2026/03/the-future-of-wordpress-after-blocks #WordPress #Gutenberg #SemanticMarkup #WebStandards #AgenticCommerce

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

Schema.org 27.0 has been released. #schemadotorg #semanticmarkup #knowledgegraph
https://schema.org/docs/releases.html

@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

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.

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