W3C   STANDARDS

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call 'web standards', are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.

Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. 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-compliant web sites, if developed properly, should look no different from web sites coded using a jumble of hobbled-together markup. However, the source code of the web site will look vastly different. A standards-compliant web site will have nice, clean markup with little or no formatting embedded in the page itself. It might be hard for you to notice this at a glance, but trust me, visually impaired individuals using screen readers and search engines will notice right away.

To learn more about W3C web standards and accessibility features: CLICK HERE