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What are we pulling in such heavy machinery for a text-only site? It's things like this that make people think it's OK to have a blog that isn't accessible wit
by jimktrains2 11y ago
What are we pulling in such heavy machinery for a text-only site? It's things like this that make people think it's OK to have a blog that isn't accessible without JS which includes so screen readers.
- tilt 11y agoThis one is actually Universal ("Isomorphic" if you want), check https://www.reindex.io/ https://www.reindex.io/ for example.
- jimktrains2 11y agoInteresting. I had expected it to be like bloger that just greets you with a white screen; I didn't see his example blog earlier.
- lhorie 11y agorelevant: http://prog21.dadgum.com/130.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/130.html
- hughw 11y agoSerious question: Why do screen readers not evolve to run js and build a DOM? (I agree blogs should be accessible to text only UAs)
- baddox 11y agoAn even better question: Do screen readers NOT do this? I would be very surprised if they don't. Surely by now screen readers would be based on one of the popular browsers.
- danneu 11y agoScreen readers definitely support Javascript: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/#javascript http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/#javascript HN had a pretty good convo about accessibility a few years ago where some screen reader dependent community members dispelled the myth once and for all, for me. We tend to talk about screen readers here like they're just `curl example.com | say`.