added to "why use" and linked Semantic Web article (#20762)

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* accessibility: help assistive technologies read and interpret your webpage
* searchability: help computers make sense of your content
* internationalization: only 13% of the world are English native speakers
* interoperability: help other programmers understand the structure of your webpage <sup>1</sup>
* interoperability: help other programmers understand the structure of your webpage and separate content from display <sup>1</sup>
### Useful Semantic Elements
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For more information: https://codepen.io/mi-lee/post/an-overview-of-html5-semantics
Refer to the [MDN Web Docs article](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/em).
You might also want to check out this old school [article in Scientific American](https://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/cours/essi2006/Scientific%20American_%20Feature%20Article_%20The%20Semantic%20Web_%20May%202001.pdf) co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee himself!