Issue filed Re: Technical question about Javascript disabled option

On Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:07:32 +0200, Chaals McCathie Nevile  
<chaals@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Dear Giacomo,
>
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:34:48 +0200, Giacomo Petri
> <giacomopetri89@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[...]
>> Display a blank page without any error message is considered a WCAG  
>> failure?
>
> I don't think there is any success criteria in WCAG that this would fail,
> so strictly speaking I would answer no. But like you, I think it is a
> clear accessibility failure. Given a mechanism to determine that a user
> has not enabled a feature that a page needs in order to function, I think
> the page should explain that to the user. This would fit under the
> principle of Understandable, and even in the spirit of guideline 3.2
> Predictable: Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways.
>
> I'll check, and if there isn't one raise an issue on the Guidelines...

And filed: https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/423

cheers

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Received on Friday, 6 October 2017 13:01:53 UTC