Each week or so I’ll discuss a different upcoming technology, tag, platform, or system from an accessibility perspective. Elements such as

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are all considered semantic because they accurately describe the purpose of the element and the type of content that is inside them. HTML 5 and ARIA Landmarks. In this post, we'll discuss how using semantic HTML can improve the accessibility of a website and earn easy accessibility wins without much, if any, extra code. Other Semantic HTML tags. Front-end developer Emily Lewis will show you how semantic HTML is the foundation for websites. Semantic HTML elements are those that clearly describe their meaning in a human- and machine-readable way. Accessibility of Semantics: How Writing Semantic HTML Can Help Accessibility. Semantic HTML tags let you serve structured content to your users, which is especially important for on-page SEO and accessibility. Thinking in terms of web accessibility can provide direction. Abstract. HTML Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a markup use to describe the structure of a web page.. HTML provides a set of tags that can be used to mark the beginning and end of a content. In a previous post, we talked about aria-attributes and how they help give screen readers more context and clarity when interacting with your website.This blog post is about aria roles and semantic HTML. Accessibility: Semantic HTML. Semantic HTML is the foundation of accessibility in a web application. As a developer, you are an advocate of the code you plan to write. HTML has grown increasingly complex over the last several years, and it can be tempting to keep using div elements with class and id attributes, but the accessibility and interoperability promise of semantic HTML5 tags is reason enough to embrace these new semantic elements. They add essential meaning to your content, which lets web browsers, search engines, screen readers, RSS readers, and ultimately users understand it. Other than images and forms, there are still many ways to provide the best accessibility possible. This is an often forgotten piece of markup that can make a huge difference to the accessibility of your markup, especially for screen readers. Semantic elements clearly describe their meaning and content to browsers, developers and users of assistive technologies. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson: Marcy lays out a set of steps for creating semantic HTML and offers tips for testing semantics on a page. The HTML structure of a website is like a roadmap. Semantic HTML is the use of HTML markup to reinforce the semantics, or meaning, of the information in webpages and web applications rather than merely to define its presentation or look.Semantic HTML is processed by traditional web browsers as well as by many other user agents. Every subsequent version of HTML has added new semantic elements; in particular, HTML5 introduced many semantic elements that are necessary for improved accessibility (such as