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> - Disable JavaScript and use your website. This may not be relevant for web apps, but regular websites should work normally. I'm not sure how this is related

• jimktrains2 8y ago
  Traditionally screen readers didn't. I'm not sure if that's still the case. However, with no JavaScript (and modern css) you can't change the randomly after load to indicate state, which may be difficult for a screen readers to get that back to a blind person.
• acdha 8y ago
  It's less critical now that browsers have standardized on the ARIA interface so it's more likely that JS sites will work, as long as you use ARIA correctly, but also note that many users are on older combinations — e.g. JAWS on IE11 is still fairly common — and you have no easy way to measure screen-reader activity so it's hard to tell whether, say, the 5% of your old IE traffic is a high percentage of your screen reader users. The other challenge is that many JavaScript-heavy sites have horrible fallback mechanisms and you would want to test to make sure that at least someone with a screen reader would have an idea of why they're not hearing any content.