Making a case for standards and accessibility

A common hurdle on the way towards a modern, standards compliant web site is making management, designers and clients understand the benefits. In short, these are the main benefits:

lighter-weight pages
easier maintenance
better accessibility
forward compatibility
greater flexibility

What about drawbacks? None significant.

Read some other people’s thoughts on this in One Foot In the Past (Eric Meyer), The Invisible Hand-coder (CodeBitch) and css v. tables (Andy Arikawa).

Posted on August 3, 2003 in Web Standards