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Semantically confusing use of <article>? #46

Open developess opened 6 years ago

developess commented 6 years ago

You guys have used a lot of article tags in the HTML, almost as a proxy for 'blocks' in the layout.

I would say using an article tag for a team member photo or logo block is semantically confusing to a screen reader / the web. It might be appropriate as a wrapper for a photo and bio of a team member though?

There's nothing wrong with using a div, and I would say this is much preferable to article for a photo/image block.

Here is what the W3 specification says about use of the article tag:

The article element represents a component of a page that consists of a self-contained composition in a document, page, application, or site and that is intended to be independently distributable or reusable, e.g. in syndication. This could be a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, a blog entry, a user-submitted comment, an interactive widget or gadget, or any other independent item of content.

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sbinlondon commented 6 years ago

We had a lot of discussions and differing undertandings in our group of semantic HTML tags so this is definitely something we're going to look into more in depth now. Thanks for raising!