74: HTML Semantics with Bruce Lawson

The Web Ahead

HTML5 brought more semantic elements to HTML. How's that going? Why should developers use semantic HTML? Bruce Lawson joins Jen Simmons to discuss HTML, semantics, accessibility, ARIA roles, microformats, microdata, RDFa, web components and more.

Links for this episode:

• Bruce Lawson’s personal site
  
• HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
  
• Introducing HTML5: Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp
  
• 5by5 | The Web Ahead #65: The Future of the Web Stack with Simon St. Laurent
  
• 5by5 | The Web Ahead #66: Web Components with Peter Gasston
  
• Bruce Lawson - The Web Standards Project
  
• jQuery UK 2014 - Jen Simmons on Vimeo
  
• Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
  
• The Truth About HTML5 (For Web Designers) by Luke Stevens
  
• Matt Wilcox (MattWilcox) on Twitter
  
• WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #5 Results
  
• The Paciello Group: Accessibility testing/evaluation, WCAG/Section 508 compliance audits, VPATs, training and accessible user experience | The Paciello Group - Your Accessibility Partner
  
• Steve Faulkner (stevefaulkner) on Twitter
  
• Opera browser - The alternative web browser - Download free
  
• ARIA - Accessibility | MDN
  
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops: When to use an ARIA role | The Paciello Group Blog
  
• Web Accessibility 101: Web Headings for Screen Readers
  
• ARIA and Progressive Enhancement · An A List Apart Article
  
• schema.org
  
• Extending HTML5 — Microdata | HTML5 Doctor
  
• About microdata - Webmaster Tools Help
  
• RDFa
  
• About rich snippets and structured data - Webmaster Tools Help
  
• Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Alex Russell's website
  
• WebComponents.org
  
• Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server - Airbnb Engineering
  
• [whatwg] [html5] Semantic elements and spec complexity
  
• bruce lawson (brucel) on Twitter
  
• Jen Simmons (jensimmons) on Twitter
  
• The Web Ahead (thewebahead) on Twitter
  

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