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What does disabling JavaScript have to do with accessibility?

• bmelton 15y ago
  Screen readers generally don't support content appended to the page after load. Twitter doesn't work on a screen reader.
  • kls 15y ago
    All of the major screen readers support content added to the DOM dynamically. They just watch particular events to know when and where to look, you have to ensure you are updating the DOM in a manner that they understand.
    • bmelton 15y ago
      Perhaps my knowledge is dated then. Thanks for the correction. Do you know of anywhere I can learn more?
      • kls 15y ago
        This is a dated article but it does give a good overview of how the screen readers work, some items have been improved in the screen readers since 08 but for the most part it is a good starting point http://northtemple.com/2008/10/07/javascript-and-screen-readers http://northtemple.com/2008/10/07/javascript-and-screen-read... also this is a good stack overflow conversation on getting the readers to read dynamic content http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3670570/getting-screen-reader-to-read-new-content-added-with-javascript http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3670570/getting-screen-re... and finally a little more bland but still containing a lot of good info the wai-aria specification http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ . Also look at Dojo in my opinion they have the most advanced accessibility library out of all of the toolkits.
  • VMG 15y ago
    If that is the case, those screen readers are broken.