Technicalities Behind Validation

In an earlier post, I gave you general reasons why validating your site’s code is important. Here is the background:

Accessibility
The internet is a useful communication tool for the home-bound, and the handicapped. Special devices help people overcome sight and hearing problems to view web sites, but only if those sites are built accessibly-compliant as dictated by Federal law Section 508. Sometimes compliant sites post a “508 Compliant” link near their copyright notice.

Standardized Coding
Professional web development procedure is to build sites using valid, non-deprecated XHTML and CSS code based on the rigorous standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. Look for validation links in a site’s footnote.

Overall
A site with validated code is like a building with sound structure. It is more likely to load faster, truer, and at all! And it is widely believed that the famed web “traffic jams” are borne of sites heavily laden with non-validated code clogging the works. Of course browser (IE, FireFox) inconsistencies are also contributing factors, but validated code is a necessary starting point.