Author
Eli Vance
AI-native web development, answer engine optimisation, and the machine-readable web.
Explains mechanisms rather than trends, and states plainly where the evidence runs out.
Editorial profile
Eli covers the contracts between people, browsers, search systems, and AI agents. The work focuses on what software actually receives from a page: semantic HTML, accessibility information, structured data, and the interaction patterns that survive beyond the visual layer.
Reporting approachEach article starts with a technical mechanism or a testable question. Product claims are checked against documentation and observable behavior, emerging practices are labelled as emerging, and forecasts are separated from established web standards.
Evidence standardClaims link to meaningful sources in context. Primary material is preferred, uncertainty is named, and corrections are made plainly.
Coverage
- Semantic HTML and browser behavior
- AI agents and machine-readable interfaces
- Accessibility as an engineering constraint
- Answer-engine and retrieval architecture
Articles
- Is your consent modal quietly breaking the web for AI agents?September 17, 2026
- Managing SEO across multiple domains is a data problem before it's a tools problemSeptember 13, 2026
- Vibecoding is quietly reintroducing inaccessible codeSeptember 4, 2026
- Your cookie banner is becoming the first API your AI agent has to useAugust 28, 2026
- How agent browsers read your formsAugust 24, 2026
- AI Is Not Your Accessibility DepartmentAugust 20, 2026
- How ChatGPT Reads Your WebsiteAugust 18, 2026
- Why Semantic HTML Suddenly Matters AgainAugust 14, 2026
Eli Vance is the byline under which Signal & Syntax publishes. Every factual claim in these articles is sourced and linked to primary material; where the evidence is thin or contested, the article says so.