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>> "So now only users with Javascript enabled can use your website." It's easy to measure what percentage of your users have JavaScript disabled. For a consume
by portman 15y ago
>> "So now only users with Javascript enabled can use your website."
It's easy to measure what percentage of your users have JavaScript disabled. For a consumer website, it's probably measured in the hundredths of a percent.
If you can make a change that increases the conversion for 99.97% of your users, even at the cost of ZEROING the conversion for 0.03% of your users, then you will still come out ahead.
- lukifer 15y agoI would be very, very curious to see hard numbers on this. Also, it's trivial enough to add a <noscript> tag advising users to turn on Javascript (with a friendly "here's how" link), or you can do the work to degrade gracefully. Your conversion might drop for such users, but there's no reason it should go to zero.
- mauriciob 15y agoOr you could add the Captcha in this case.
- prawn 15y agoIn which case, are most captchas going to screw blind people anyway?
- count 15y agoreCaptcha has highly-accessible captchas, including audio versions.
- ZoFreX 15y agoHave you ever tried entering an audio captcha?
- prawn 15y agoCan't say I have. Is it not as one might imagine?
- ZoFreX 15y agoIt's difficult to describe. Go sign up for a new Google account [1] and click the wheelchair symbol to activate the audio captcha. [1]: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
- prawn 15y agoOn the off chance someone reads this, I'll try to describe it: over the top of random, unintelligible babbling, a voice reads alphanumeric characters. Parts of it are about as difficult to understand as some captchas are to read recently.
- Luyt 15y agoI checked this last week for a site I maintain, 10% of the visitors were still using IE6, and 15% of the visitors had Javascript turned off. I guess that's because that site is aimed at a certain business audience. Another site I maintain shows numbers like 3% IE6 and 1% non-JS. What a difference! Of course, for the first site I mentioned, we made it sure the site graciously degrades for non-JS and/or IE6 users. We don't want to lose 15% of our customers.
- jtheory 15y agoApparently some hyper-paranoid corporate firewalls block JavaScript... that probably accounts for the oddly-high percentage of no-JS business users you're seeing.