Conversational Semantics
summary
Claims that using semantic HTML and ARIA lets voice assistants and bots reuse the live web instead of bespoke APIs, citing over four and a half billion web pages of untapped content. Demonstrates concrete tools: HTML5 roles and landmarks, input types, autocomplete tokens, pattern and required validation, rel values, and a Chromium link to arbitrary text (Chromium experiment) proposal. Gives a cautionary build story — a hidden-price input was changed and an order for an Xbox succeeded — proving server validation must always run.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 5:22Powerful Phrases
- 30:38Browsers ignore what they don't understand
- 31:25Progressive Enhancement
- 40:13Validate in the browser
- 42:12Validate on the server
- 43:52Never trust the client
- 44:41Summarize server-side errors
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