This tweet, posted almost a month ago, stuck in my brain. It begs a question of where that HTML came from? CMS? JS Frameworks? Is it down to awful structure? HTML was never that semantic and promises of better never evolved. Living standard, no adaptation? HTML is anti-semantic!

Hmm. I've heard of languages that compile down to HTML, like Elm. But would Elm be considered more "semantic" if its syntax and structure look more like Java or Scala than natural language? And would it necessarily be more "accessible" if it used keyphrases instead of tags?

With regards to accessibility, you will always need a human interpretation layer, even for keyphrases. So, no.

Thanks. That was my thought of course but I am not a programmer.

I respectfully disagree!

Do tell! I'm unclear which comment you disagree with and why but interested in your perspective!

The programmer part. I’ve got a few of your books 🙂