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3.8 Structure metadata for machine readability

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Include essential document metadata and structured data to improve usability, accessibility, and machine readability.

Success Criteria

  • Required elements:
    Include a required title element and add optional HTML head elements where they improve usability, accessibility, or performance.
  • Meta tags:
    Include relevant meta tags that are widely used by browsers, search engines, and other user agents.
  • Structured data:
    Use structured data, such as schema.org, implemented with JSON-LD, microdata, RDFa, or microformats, to enable consistent interpretation and reuse of content by both humans and machines across tools and services.

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