By: Jose A. Toledo
The World Wide Web Consortium has many things planned out for the future of the web. We already know that their main concern is to make the web more comprehensible and to make the web available to everybody, everywhere. They also are interested in the future of the web and in many other things, such as ensuring access to the web by many devices. After the web started getting very popular through PC's at home, and offices, new technologies made the use of the web possible through other devices. They started working on this in 1998, making the web available through mobile devices (cell phones, PDA's), television, and many other devices, allowing us to take the web wherever possible.
The W3C is also trying to promote the use of best practices for today and for tomorrow. They are trying to ensure the implementation of their specifications, to establish a more reliable and secure web. Part of this effort includes the publishing of new guidelines for better practices, that will allow the web to be more reliable, and secure as time goes on. There are already guidelines available called the Web Accessibility Guidelines. They are also offering validation services that are develop within the W3C or by its partners. The Web Accessibility Guidelines are today, a very important role on the development of the web, but the W3C is also focusing in establishing, and creating new guidelines that will keep up with the rapid growth of the web in the upcoming future to ensure the reliability of the web.
