- From: Guy Hickling <guy.hickling@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 22:53:18 +0100
- To: WAI Interest Group discussion list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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Having answered the OP's question, I'll take up the other comments. I think the world has moved on from where it used to be. Probably two thirds of websites use JavaScript now, often for quite important facilities of the site, because of the clever things it can do. We can deplore the lack of progressive enhancement, but there are too many developers out there that just use JavaScript as standard who have no intention of adding extra development time for that. Some stuff is very complex and would take hours of extra work to create non-script alternatives. In the face of the numbers I don't think we are going to change anything at this late stage. It would be like trying to stop a river using a broom. We can test for it when doing audits, but I'm sure that any company that's invested in using a JavaScript library like Google's isn't going to buy something else and rewrite their program just because we say it doesn't work for text browsers. We could even ask Google to change theirs, but there are thousands of JS libraries out there. I suspect, being realistic, this is an insoluble problem. But this does leave a problem for text-browser users. There is another text browser, eLinks, that can run JavaScript. But I've heard that it isn't very good at doing so, though I'm open to contradiction on that if anyone here knows?
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