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The UX of HTML (2023)


A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? Later, when HTML 5 was introduced the talks about semantics were still mostly about creating a proper document outline, but this time with sectioning elements in combination with headings. You need a good idea of what UX is before you can understand things like the option to nagivate through the headings on the page with a screen reader.

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