Orange County Expert Coder, HTML, XHTML for 508 Compliance Laws
Why is it important to Validate HTML website source coding?
We all have our own thoughts on the amount of validation needed. I agree with others that extensive validation is a waste of time due to the fact that one web page update could reverse your validation.
But with a site wide pass of validation you get the following benefits:
- Web page file size… typically 10-30% reduction in file size is observed.
- cut down on use of web storage and bandwidth usage to save you the client money for hosting your online business site. - Faster page loads… if your page does not load in less than TEN seconds; site visitors may click away from your site.
- Competitive Edge – I strongly believe that each “betterment” leads to the tie breaker when you are dead even with a competitor for ranking in Google.
- HTML Validation: Allows your website to be fully accessible to a larger online user demographic (visually impaired, motor skill impaired, cognitive impaired)
- HTML Validation: Allows your site to be accessed by wider range of devices (hand held's, screen readers, text browsers, search engines)
- Is a requirement for Federal and State Government sites
- Better human interaction scores in the eyes of the engines and algorithms… higher level accessibility creates increased human behavior traits for all demographic and all others that benefit from increased standardization.
- SEO Contractor / WEB Developer Benefits, this means everyone on the project saves time and money when maintaining clients' sites. (with no mistakes in your html code – there are less design flaws requiring troubleshooting after SEO Best Practice Implementation.)
- Browser compatibility - validated code ensures your site is compatible with the current browsers and future browsers.
- Increased Reach to a larger audience which then increases the potential of your site to make more sales.
Contact Jason "SEharness" Chandler to have your site's HTML Validation reviewed, analyzed and updated to meet the compliance laws.
We are in the process of updating our web sites to be ahead of the newest laws being issued pertaining to the accessibility of the web to the handicapped. In the foresee able future a web site could be shut down. Like a department store having no handicapped. parking or wheel chair ramps.