What are Web Standards
Web standards are a set of guidelines and recommendations set up by W3C. Web standards involve these three main areas:
- Valid code.
- Semantic code.
- Separation of content from the presentation.
Accessible websites allow you to reach the largest audience possible including people with disabilities. Using web standards helps to make your site more accessible. It also means that your site will continue to work in future browsers. To check that your site or someone else’s contain valid markup (code) go to http://validator.w3.org/ and type in the full web address including the http://
To check my site, click on the xhtml button at the bottom of this page.
For information about web standards see the following links.
“Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market.”
Web Standards Project
