In the big picture, many things will use your website that won't use
javascript. Like a search engine spider. Or a crappy cell phone.
At the very least make sure your basic site functions don't rely on
javascript to work. Same thing with images.
The arguments/links below from Ted are valuble if you want to look deeper.
Joseph R. B. Taylor
/Designer / Developer/
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On 7/1/09 12:39 PM, Ted Drake wrote:
At Yahoo! we build our sites to work without JS and then add progressive
enhancement.
I don't have the stats in front of me, but we find a much larger number of
users without JS.
Take a look at this page:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news
With JS enabled and disabled you'll see all of the customization
functionality works.
The personalization features were built by Dirk Ginader who also made this
presentation on why and how you should build sites for everyone.
http://www.slideshare.net/ginader/the-5-layers-of-web-accessibility
Ted DRAKE
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Dimmock
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:23 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible websites (was: accessible free web hosting
account)
I'll just address one you raised Jens.
Google does not currently parse external Javascript files. So unless
Fairfax uses simple inline Javascript, and exposes spiderable URLS,
that's probably good enough for most of us to use progressive
enhancement methodology . Ask Lucas. When he gets back from SG
Chris
http://www.cogentis.com.au
Is there any other strong arguments for making pages available,
without javascript enabled?
I'd like to know too. On the Sydney Morning Herald in June less than
0.5% of users had JS disabled. Maybe we should drop that support?
Anyone willing to share their numbers/reasons?
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