then the developers of javascript need to consider accessibility as a priority item. there are more than 14 million visually impaired people in the U.S. alone. a significant percentage of that are on the net and iusing accessibility technology. roadblocks such as javascript or flash graphics prevent those like me from accessing useful information, or require we hire (or acquire) sighted assistants.
also, any excuses that developers give for not adding accessibility fall flat or are just simply wrong. I have seen more excuses about this very subject than I care to count. you would figure that these guys have read the w3c addendum about accessibility on the web.
-eric
On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> I think you're confusing Java and JavaScript, which have no connection whatsoever.
> Java is used extremely rarely in the UI layer of the web. It's huge in the server layer, but if you see Java in the web browser, it's a rare thing indeed.
> JavaScript is used extremely heavily, and will become vastly *more* prevalent as HTML5 grows because it's the only dynamic UI language for HTML5.
> JavaScript, unfortunately, does not have native accessibility support.
>
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