Re: JavaScript and Screen Readers

Isofarro wrote:
> 

> This has nothing to do with Java. If you feel you need to contact the 
> organisation responsible/taking care for JavaScript, then you need to 
> contact ECMA, but I doubt you will find the answer there. Perhaps a 

ECMA only specify ECMAScript, the core programming language and the 
non-document, non-brower, supporting library.  Most of what actually 
causes problems is in the document and browser object models, whose 
origins are in a de facto standard by Netscape, since expanded by 
Microsoft, although parts of them (but not, for example, document 
loading time use of document.write) are standardised by W3C.

> better place will be Mozilla's accessibility mailing list, since Mozilla 
> is the direct descendent of Netscape Corporation which originally 
> created the JavaScript language. Aaron Lowenthal is probably the best 
> placed person to talk to about accessible JavaScript.

In practice, W3C's attempts to make people manipulate the DOM as a tree 
structure have been ignored, by the market, in favour of load time 
document.write and Microsoft's InnerHTML.


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Received on Monday, 18 August 2008 21:04:16 UTC