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Tag: Semantic content

Article — 20 October 2026 — 2,007 words

What you get is what you mean

Accessibility — Content design — Digital — Web

An adaptation of the "shaded eye" symbol sometimes used to symbolise blindness. The slash through the eye is the slash that is part of a text string to signify HTML: "< / >"

Standing for “what you see is what you get”, wysiwyg has become so ubiquitous that many people consider it a must-have for a writing environment. But it is leaving the integrity of content in tatters.

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Article — 26 May 2026 — 3,473 words

Grounding AI the webby way — Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 takeaways

Business — Information architecture — Technology — Web

Work: Scottish Government

Conference attendees mingling in a room

There was a heavy focus on artificial intelligence. But what really struck me was that the semantic approaches that are preparing us for our AI future are well-established web standards that have been around for decades.

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Article — 26 September 2025 — 1,247 words

Autonomy, independence, federation, WordPress and concrete

Personal — Web

IndieWeb icon, ActivityPub icon and WordPress icon, arranged next to an arrow pointing right

I have had to make some behind-the-scenes changes to this website. In the process, I am planning to make it more interoperable with the fediverse and indieweb standards — and I am sticking with WordPress.

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