{"slug": "html", "title": "HTML", "summary": "A developer shares their learning journey in web development, explaining HTML meta tags and UTF-8 encoding in simple terms for beginners. The post covers why specifying language in HTML improves browser understanding, translation accuracy, and accessibility for screen readers.", "body_md": "*welcome to my first blog*\n\nThis is not an Ordinary blog. it is based on my own understanding and i am still learning . I will explain topics simple words the way i understand them. I m not to write like an Ai or an expert I share my learning journey so that beginners can understand easily. If i make any mistakes I will learn from them and improve.\n\nWhy Mention the Language?\n\n**meta lang=\"eng\"**\n\n```\n* Browser Understanding the page language. \n* useful translation tools translate a other language correctly.\n* improve accessibility for blind users programmers code .\n* Screen readers like JAWS and NVDA which convert text to Speech.\n```\n\n* it's short method used quickly typing.\n\n* long method available but short method almost using every user.\n\n* what is this called universal character encoding\n\n(E.g)\n\n```\n* HTML File = message (you send the secret code word)\n* UTF-8 = reading rule ( friend A not  understands the secret code word mean)\n* Reader = Browser ( then you explain a friend what secret code meaning)\n```\n\nwhy using this tag?\n\n(E.g)\n\n```\n * imagine opened a website on an old Nokia phone not fit the display screen properly.\n * I had to zoom in and out every time to read the content because the layout was not aligned correctly.\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/html", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/raj_e8000a0e6f2a95ead799a/html-848", "published_at": "2026-07-09 05:25:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 05:42:14.239383+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["JAWS", "NVDA"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/html", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/html.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/html.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/html.jsonld"}}