HTML Cleanup and Web Accessibility
Valid HTML
Why You should have it
- Valid HTML ensures your site will be properly read by all modern browsers.
- Valid HTML is the first step to good web accessibility.
- Valid HTML improves your business image: people who are professional and serious about what they do, have websites with valid code.
- Valid HTML helps the search engine spiders access and read the content of your pages.
- Valid HTML is essential for compatibility with mobile devices, screen readers and other devices that people access your website with.
Why You have not got it?
- You don’t know how to make your code valid.
- You didn’t realise that it was important.
- You lack the in-house resource to validate your website.
- You think it’s too hard or too expensive to validate the HTML code of your site.
- You haven’t looked at your site for months.
Accessible Web Sites
Why You should have it
- Accessible websites can be easily accessed and used by people with various disabilities.
- Modern Internet Law requires certain types of websites to be accessible.
- People with disabilities may become your clients.
- Having an accessible website shows that you care.
- Having an accessible website gives you new venues for web promotion—you can submit your site to the directories of accessible websites.
Why You have not got it?
- Modern accessibility standards are very complex and include a lot of various considerations, which makes them hard to follow.
- You are not familiar with the standards; words like WAI-AAA and section 508 mean nothing to you.
- Making sites accessible is a lot of work, which you don’t have the in-house resource to perform.
- You never thought it was important.
- Accessibility experts charge very high fees that you cannot afford.