How Things Will Change The Way You Approach Web Standards

What is the main reason Web Standards is created?
The use of Web Standards makes every page you build genuinely cross-browser and cross platform. With the arrival of mobile phones and hand-held devices, following the standards is the most efficient way to achieve better more stable web across multi-browsers. Other elements include backward compatibility and increase search success.

What’s differences between early web standards and today’s standards?
Most web standards today are designed with forward and backward compatibility in mind. At the first stages of the web, developers wanted more freedom in the expression of their work, but were limited due incompatible browser availability. Browsers at that time supported tags that would only work with their product, which broadened the incompatibility of equal displaying across different bowser.

Why is accessibility so important? Who mandates it?
Accessibility provides a way where users with disabilities can access and have the freedom to use the web. The web should be and is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, culture, disability and so on. When web tools and websites are poorly designed, this can create barriers that exclude people from using the web.
The world-wide web consortium mandates the web standards for accessibility.

Where do you see Web Standards in the near future? Did it lost its relevance or is it more relevant now than ever?
I see web standards still holding its importance today. The individuals who pioneered or pushed the boundaries compatibility across all browsers and accessibility for all still have a great impact on how we develop the web. As mobile use becomes more integrated within our lives, it is apparent that we allow compatibility across all screen sizes and browser.
