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Usability & Accessibility Archive

Semantic HTML for Usable Web Sites

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Although the title of this blog post might seem a tad ironic in that there is not much semantics to HTML or XHTML, I do feel like writing a little piece about how to correctly use (X)HTML.

Hopefully, it might help you understand that even valid (X)HTML can be bad (X)HTML, and that — and how — semantic HTML may help improve your site’s usability, accessibility and search engine ranking. Whether you’re developing for a commercial site or not, these factors should be of interest. They certainly are to your end-users. (more…)