Today (late last night) I published:
“Contextually Marking up accessible images and SVGs”
scottohara.me/blog/2019/05/22/co…

in it i identify the most robust markup patterns for making accessible images, SVGs, and note how those patterns need to change if used within links and buttons.

Just published:
“How do you figure?”
A look at how to use HTML’s figure and figcaption elements and their current support with screen readers:
scottohara.me/blog/2019/01/21/ho…

I just have a hard time understanding how people can be so awesome at JS & so piss poor at HTML.

You are writing JS to make HTML. Learn it.