Elaine Conn

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• Elaine Conn

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W3C's mission is
To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential
by developing protocols and guidelines that
ensure long-term growth for the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee and others created W3C as an
industry consortium dedicated to building
consensus around Web technologies. Mr.
Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in
1989 while working at the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (CERN), has served as the
W3C Director since W3C was founded, in 1994.
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W3C Develops Web Standards and Guidelines

• W3C creates Web standards and guidelines.
• Since 1994, W3C has published more than 110
  standards, called W3C Recommendations.
• W3C engages in education and outreach
• W3C develops software
• W3C serves as an open forum for discussion about
  the Web
• For the Web to reach its full potential. Web
  technologies must be compatible with one another
  and allow any hardware and software used to
  access the Web to work together.
• W3C refers to this goal as Web
  interoperability. By publishing open
  (non-proprietary) standards for Web languages and
  protocols, W3C seeks to avoid market
  fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation.

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What does W3C web standards compliant mean for
your business?
Accessibility Your site will be accessible to
many different types of users due to the use of
semantic XHTML code. Browser Compatibility Your
site will be visible by most if not all web
browsers like PDA, mobile phones, and other
devices. Easier Maintenance Updating the site's
design and content will be easier for any web
designer due to the separation of content (XHTML)
from presentation (CSS). Download SpeedYour
site downloads much faster, due to the clean and
semantic XHTML code. Search Engine FriendlyYour
site is indexed and understood much easier by the
major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
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W3C Recommendations
SENDA - The Special Educational Needs and
Disability Act
make sure the information on your website is
accessible to all, regardless of any disability a
visitor may have.
http//www.hobo-web.co.uk/tips/12.htm
Make your website Comply with SENDA For your
website to comply with The Special Educational
Needs and Disability Act 2001 (SENDA) your
organisation should ensure your website is built
to the very latest W3C standards and
recommendations from the very outset. Your
accessible website design consultant should lay
down clear instructions for your incumbent
website design company to build your website to
W3C HTML and CSS global good practice standards.
Your website should be able to pass at least the
very minimum W3C recommended Priority 1 standard
for websites . . .
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How do you test your site for W3C web standards
compliancy?
Type in your website address (URL) in the form
for the http//validator.w3.org/ How to see
worksheet W3C