WCAG

In this post, I propose that a combination of valid, accessible, and search engine friendly markup is the perfect recipe for optimal web design.

For markup to be valid, it needs to conform to the guidelines laid out by the “governing body” of HTML standardization: the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. While the Internet anxiously waits for HTML5 to shift in status from candidate to recommendation, we’re stuck with ye olde HTML 4.01 standard (est. 1999) as laid out by W3C. Naturally, HTML5 is already widely supported by all the major browsers, and it can (and should) be incorporated in web design without hesitation.