When you contract a web designer, be sure to include the requirement that the site passes validation for coding and accessibility. Now, if you intend to include Flash, however, those particular pages might not validate. It takes special coding that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.
Why, you say? Why validate?
So your site can be read now and later.
Now, by all those elderly shut-ins who so enjoy the escapism your web site offers, either because of your product or service, or merely your friendly words and colorful images.
If you don’t validate, his or her outdated computer might not be able to pull up your site.
Now, by the handicapped person who needs a voice reader to understand what your business is all about.
If you don’t validate, her machine probably won’t be able to tell her of your products, services, name and contact information.
Now, by everyone who uses our finicky, quirky browsers which aren’t keeping up with the advancing technology behind our web sites..
If you don’t validate, and our browsers might not display your site in the way you intended it to be..
And we validate for later to preserve our writings for the future. Want to know more about that? Read The Noodle Incident
