Image that popped into my head in the shower today representing the fantasy of standardization. Maybe future iterations will come that clarify it. We’ll see.

A grid with dots. at the top the dots are floating around. At the bottom they're increasingly locked into a grid. People often describe accessibility as the "floor" on which other standards build on (the bottom of the grid), but Increasingly I feel the division between standards and experiments is, in my mind, artificial. Code-compliance people and experimental people rely on each other. We're frenemies, I guess.