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Sep 5, 2011 / 10:35pm

Data

Doing this – interacting with a bunch of organizations from the tiny to the giant in attempts to get something inaccessible fixed – was outwardly not much like the community-wide spasm fandom had last year over accessibility. Totally different ways of processing a problem. But it felt exactly the same to me. Like I am a second-class citizen, like I am imposing by existing and by being a user, like I should please please please go away. And I think the results here demonstrate the exact same thing that fandom did last year.
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One persons sets out to educate website owners how they can fix accessibility problems. He didn't achieve anything and shares his frustra^findings.

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Apr 28, 2011 / 12:13am

Why we should support users with no Javascript

If you take The Guardian as an example, the current average visitors per day is around 2,200,000. 1.3% of that is 28,600 users browsing without Javascript. Per day.
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While I had always believed in progressive enhancement and the need to ensure that my sites work without JavaScript, this article almost convinced me to change my mind, by using weak argumentation.

While it still makes sense for content websites, providing a non-JavaScript and usable fallback for modern web apps is really a significant effort. For what benefit? Support for 1.3% users (I hope that this number excludes bots). With such a small number it really becomes a business decision: is it worth spending extra money (usually much more than 1.3% of the cost of development) to support that group?

Ability to link to a page and letting crawlers in are worth extra effort, though. But optimization of user experience for 1.3% of users who disable JS, sometimes for misguided reasons? Show me the money from that investment first.

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