Web Standards: Building an accessible Semantic Web

Web Standards ensure that all content presented on the web is accessible by various media devices and channels in stable and predictable formats with content integrity. The basic structure that makes the Internet a worldwide inter-connection of networks is its protocols and standards.

Content Mark-up has evolved from the era of text-only presentation of information based on HTML (a sub-set of SGML), to todays websites that incorporate all possible forms of static and dynamic media. This revolutionary transformation has also brought about many proprietary technologies that hinder the original objective of the Internet (to enable content accessibility independent of the client platform).

In this apparently dismal situation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has proposed a set of guidelines, best-practices, and semantic approaches that make it possible to markup content for predictable delivery and presentation on any platform. Adherence to these standards often increases web content production time in the short-term; but it enables websites to be accessible, fast-loading and compatible with virtually all standards compliant web clients; thereby increasing efficiency.

Web Standards are at the core of our site and Web CMS design and production. All our projects are validated using W3C validators before they are declared complete.