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---- How accessible is Javascript at all?


Taffa - 11:01 am on Feb 22, 2006 (gmt 0)


My basic question is: How accessible is such a construction for disabled people, particularly visually impaired customers? How do the readers cope with changes in the content of form-fields performed by the java-script?

Well that depends on how you have coded your JavaScript. There have been some good detailed studies done lately about what works in screen readers. Oredering must also work with JavaScript turned off.

Generally you need to learn Unobtrusive Javascript:
Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005
(www.bobbyvandersluis.com/articles/goodpractices.php)

DOM Scripting Task Force
(domscripting.webstandards.org/?page_id=2)

Unobtrusive Javascript
(www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/)

HOW your script compares to practises recommended in those articles?

[edited by: pageoneresults at 4:09 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2006]
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