Behind Standards Reboot
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What's your opinion on standards? Would you say it is better to have a valid website or an invalid one with more features that do not validate.
I would once again say that it depends on the audience and the type of site that it is catering to. I am a very large advocate of web standards, but I understand that the time and money it takes to create a XHTML/CSS standard and fully accessible site could sometimes be better used elsewhere. For a video site such as YouTube, making a site that can be viewed with a screen-reader is not going to make as much sense as, say a governmental department for the disabled. In a perfect world, all sites would be standards compliant and fully accessible to all. Until then, I think we need to strike a healthy balance between user accessibility and user experience.