Can you see me?
Meera Tank & Nic Bell on
Web Standards

We’re a needle
In a needle stack!

What are
Web Standards?
 W3C Standards – A working group
dedicated to leading the web to it’s full
potential. Includes (X)HTML, CSS, DOM,
WAI-ARIA etc.
 HTML5 – The future mark up
 Accessibility – Access for all
 Testing – User focused & browsers

Why do we have
Web Standards?
 These standards are  If we did not have
in place so that web web standards the
content can be web you become very
understood and be fragmented as
accessible to any content would only
platform or device be visible to isolated
that can interpret audiences
these standards.

Why use
semantic mark up?

Why use
semantic mark up?

Out with the old, in with
the new - HTML5
 Meaningful tags
 Great for search
engines
 Better for accessibility
(screen readers)
 Less markup

Access for all

Who’s it for?
 Blind users
 Partial/poor sight
 Colour blindness
 Deaf users
 Web users from outside your industry who may not
understand industry jargon or acronyms
 Web users whose first language is not English and
who may not be able to comprehend complicated
language

What else?
 Accessible to mobile
phone users
 Search engines
 Other websites (RSS, external
APIs)
 Non mainstream browsers

Test all the way
 Test form the beginning
 Eye tracking &
user reading patters for
designs
 Accessibility testing
during HTML
 Browser testing

Browsers
Why Upgrade?
 Improved browsing  New versions are
experience more secure
 Not all browsers  New versions are
render the page to faster
look the same  IE8, FF3, Safari 4,
 Good browsers make Opera and Chrome all
better coding have acceptable
standards possible standards support.

The Internet thanks you!
Change the way you browse the web, use Opera!