It is important to follow recommended guidelines on web standards for various reasons...
1. To ensure cross-browser compatibility.
Your website should render correctly in all standards-compliant web-browsers.
2. To improve accessibility for people with disabilities.
The
British Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service provided to members of the public - including websites.
Some other very important benefits include
- Easier manageability
- Reduced costs
- Lower maintenance costs
- Lower bandwidth consumption
- Compatability
- Forward compatibility
- Compatible with new browsers
- Compatible with mobile devices
- Compatible with text browsers and screen readers
- Extensibility
- More traffic
- Better search engine visibility
- Faster page load times
