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You have some valid points about how we use javascript for many parts of our web pages that don't need javascript. I would love for the web to be fully accessib
by hhsnopek 11y ago
You have some valid points about how we use javascript for many parts of our web pages that don't need javascript. I would love for the web to be fully accessible without javascript, but we have to remember that there are a small percentage of people currently using the web without javascript. Im sure twitter has their reasons for using javascript for the simple tasks that are solvable without the assistance of javascript. I would imagine that it wouldnt be cost efficient, if nothing else, not a top priority to make their site accessible without javascript due to the small user base that doesn't use javascript.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThere are two substantial online communities which don't use javascript, or don't use it reliably. Robots and the disabled. Bots include major search engines -- Google, Bing, DDG, etc. And yes, they may parse some JS, but it's quite spotty. But there are also a bazillion custom Web scrapers (not everything's APId, scraping is MVP) which harvest information for purposes good and otherwise. The disabled use screen-readers or text-to-speech to render content for those who cannot see your pixel-perfect design. I'm leaning to a "plaintext first" school of Web design. First plan a plaintext page, then mobile, then full desktop. See where that gets you.