rocknbil - 8:45 pm on Dec 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

This is a great question, and I wish there were. There are many self proclaimed "validation organizations" (for lack of better words) and the only qualification to join: show me the money. Some of them don't even require any sort of testing.

I think there will continue to be problems in effecting any sort of union or validation standards for the web because the standards by which skills are measured are always changing. The W3C doesn't "govern" anything, it's still all just recommendations.

And by the time you get "trained" as an "expert" in a thing, it changes. But some sort of solid certification should be organized, though I've no idea how it would come into being.