Web standards ensure that websites are easily usable for search engines and all web browsers, but also for people with physical or sensory disabilities. They use specialized devices that rely on standards-compliant websites.
The usefulness and added value of web standards are undisputed. But you can hardly find any site on the Web that meets web standards.
If you test any random site with the Validator from the Web Consortium (W3C), the official body for web standards, the question is never whether there are errors, but only how many. We are not talking about a few errors, but error messages in the double or triple digits.
Anyone who wants to see for themselves can test it right away on any website of their choice.
Standards-Compliant Websites
It is often heard that most errors on websites have no perceptible consequences, and that it is not possible in practice to create error-free websites. Both statements are tendentious and false. We manage it, why not WordPress, Typo3, Joomla, and other major content management systems for website creation?
What technologies and tools can be used to create standards-compliant websites? And how can websites be best optimized that are not yet so?
Climate Friendliness
Even errors need to be processed, which results in increased CO2 emissions with each page load. In contrast, standards-compliant websites are efficiently processed by browsers and cause a lower CO2 footprint.