W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines

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W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines are a large, evolving specification — 300 pages with 93 guidelines published as a first draft in August 2023 and iterated since, split into UX, web development, hosting/infrastructure, business strategy and a measurement task force that struggles to define numeric metrics. The guidelines power a browsable site (sustainabledesign.org) with role and tag filters, already see real-world use, invite GitHub issues, and aim for education, tooling, adoption and eventual legislation.

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1. 0:00Web sustainability journey
2. 4:44W3C and its role
3. 5:49Accessibility foundation
4. 7:33European Accessibility Act
5. 10:05Sustainability need
6. 13:38First draft guidelines
7. 16:27How to use the Web Sustainability Guidelines
8. 17:50Measuring impact
9. 19:14Next steps
10. 22:45How to contribute

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