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<h1 class="title">Best Practices for Authoring HTML Current Status</h1>
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<a href="../history/mobile-bp" title="Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 publication history">2008-07-29</a>
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<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-mobile-bp-20080729/">Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=mobile-bp">translations</a>
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<p>The Mobile Web Best Practices specificies best practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices, with a principal objective to improve the user experience.</p>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mwbp-guidelines-20091020/">Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a>
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<p>This document supplements the <a href="http://www.w3.org /TR/mobile-bp/" shape="rect">Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a> by providing additional evaluatio ns of conformance to Best Practice statements and by providing additional interpret ations of these statements. </p>
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<a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-bidi" title="Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts publication history">2009-09-08</a>
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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.
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<a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-lang" title="Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content publication history">2007-04-12</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/">Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content</a>
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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.
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<a href="../history/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS" title="HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 publication history">2000-11-06</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-WCAG10-HTML-TECHS-20001106">HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>
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<p>This document describes techniques for authoring accessible Hypertext Markup
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(refer to HTML 4.01 <cite>
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[HTML4]</cite>). This document is intended to help authors of Web content
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who wish to claim conformance to "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"
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(<cite>[WCAG10]</cite>). While the techniques in
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this document should help people author HTML that conforms to "Web Content
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Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", these techniques are neither guarantees of
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conformance nor the only way an author might produce conforming content.</p>
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<p>This document is part of a series of documents about techniques for
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authoring accessible Web content. For information about the other documents in
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Guidelines 1.0" <cite>[WCAG10-TECHS]</cite>.</p>
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<strong>Note:</strong> This document contains a number of examples that
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<a href="../history/NOTE-html40-mobile" title="HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access publication history">1999-03-15</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/NOTE-html40-mobile-19990315">HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access</a>
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Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
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<p>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.</p>
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<a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-char-20040509/">Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0</a>
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<p>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.</p>
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