Web : Standards

World Wide Web Consortium | W3C

• W3C : Home
• W3C : XHTML
• W3C : Markup Validation Service
• W3C : CSS
• W3C : CSS Validation Service
• W3C : Unicorn Project “One-Stop” Validator (alpha)
• W3C : XML
• W3C : XForms
• W3C : Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• W3C : Link Checker

Additional Resources and Tools

• The Web Standards Project – includes basic FAQS explaining what are web standards and why you should use them.
• 456 Berea Street – articles focusing on web standards, accessibility and usability.
• Accessibility @ University of Minnesota Duluth – regularly updated master list of web accessibility resources.
• Accessify: Web accessibility tools and resources
• Cynthia Says Portal – Section 508 validator.
• Section 508: The Road to Accessibility – aka Section508.gov.
• Standards, Guidelines and Patterns @ University of Minnesota Duluth – regularly updated master list of web design standards and related concepts.
• United States Access Board – federal coordinating agency on technological accessibility.
• Web Standards Group – longstanding group of web designers promoting standards.

The Webdogs Canon

• Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition: 2006) ~ if you read only one book, this is the one.
• Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional (2006)
• Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2006)
• Cascading Style Sheets 2.0: Programmer’s Reference (2001)
• CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (2006)
• CSS: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition: 2006)
• Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (2004)
• DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model (2005)
• HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS (2006)
• ppk on JavaScript (2006)
• Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance (2006)
• Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (2006)