AJAX and DDA - thoughts 1

[Badgers]

Hi,

Who has heard of the Disibility Act, you know stuff about building websites to strict html standards so are screen reader compliant.

How does AJAX now affect this, I believe it will break the standards and screen readers with the use of all the javascript to do all the async stuff.

Has anyone any thoughts on this ?

 

[ca8msm]

Javascript should only be used to enhance the functionality of the site and as such your site should degrade well if the user doesn't have javascript capabilities. As AJAX is based on javascript, your site should still work as intended without AJAX.


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[Badgers]

Would an option be then - you can use ajax, and if the site will still run with jacasvript disabled. Async postback will turn into full, then that is fine?

With that, you wouldnot need two versions of the site, one static and one ajax ?

 

[ca8msm]

Yes, that's the general idea. What I usually do code my websites without any javascript. Once it's fully functional, I revisit it and add any javascript that will potentially help the user and prevent as many postbacks. This way, I know that my users will always be able to use my sites regardless of how they access them.


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