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Best Practices for Authoring HTML Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: HTML & CSS.

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W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2008-07-29

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

translations · errata

The Mobile Web Best Practices specificies best practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices, with a principal objective to improve the user experience.

Group Notes

2009-10-20

Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

This document supplements the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 by providing additional evaluatio ns of conformance to Best Practice statements and by providing additional interpret ations of these statements.

2009-09-08

Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts

Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

2007-04-12

Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content

Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

2000-11-06

HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This document describes techniques for authoring accessible Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content (refer to HTML 4.01 [HTML4]). This document is intended to help authors of Web content who wish to claim conformance to "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" ([WCAG10]). While the techniques in this document should help people author HTML that conforms to "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", these techniques are neither guarantees of conformance nor the only way an author might produce conforming content.

This document is part of a series of documents about techniques for authoring accessible Web content. For information about the other documents in the series, please refer to "Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [WCAG10-TECHS].

Note: This document contains a number of examples that illustrate accessible solutions in CSS but also deprecated examples that illustrate what content developers should not do. The deprecated examples are highlighted and readers should approach them with caution -- they are meant for illustrative purposes only.

1999-03-15

HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access

HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access represents one of the early attempt at developing guidelines to make Web content useful on mobile devices.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Other Working Drafts

2012-01-03

Media Accessibility User Requirements

Aggregates requirements of a user with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, providing background on user needs, alternative content technologies, and their application on the Web.

2004-05-09

Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0

Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS, focusing specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters.

Obsolete Specifications

These specifications have either been superseded by others, or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival purposes, but are not intended to be used.

Retired

1998-03-13

Primary Language in HTML

Thoughts on how to mark the primary language(s) in a HTML document.