When I explain to clients why standards are important I bring up the
following list:
http://www.geminidevelopment.com.au/html/article_whycomplient.php
And explain it to them point by point.
Samuel
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote:
As a thought, I wanted to point something out. No one cares about
standards or accessibility but us. Its our job to care.
As an example, we can view any of the URLs on this list, and see a
common thread - we all like to point out that we use standards and
care about accessibility.
I've noticed that often, our text almost sounds as though we write it
just in case another group member reads it so we make sure no one
thinks we suck or something.
You won't find this in any other industry. Our potential clients want
to know that we care, but we can never expect them to care about the
difference between HTML and XHTML and XML, nor should we ever expect
them to care much about CSS vs. tables for layout.
Our clients don't care as long as it works. They do care that we care
enough to make them the best, most accessible site we can, but they
could care less how.
Just a thought.
Joe Taylor
http://sitesbyjoe.com
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