[Mailman-Developers] Turning off dynamic JavaScript

[John W. Baxter]

Thank you for the correction, David.

  --John

On 7/5/06 5:07 PM, "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:

> That assertion is not true, to my knowledge -- and I am a screen reader user.
> Because it does work with a lot of things, and does offer improved
> functionality, it is rare to turn Javascript off.
> 
> David Andrews
> 
> At 01:54 PM 7/5/2006, John W. Baxter wrote:
>> On 7/5/06 11:26 AM, "emf" <i at mindlace.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> The problem I face is not when JavaScript is not active, the problem is
>>> when JavaScript *is* active *and* behaves correctly - i.e. performs the
>>> dom modification I've told it to - but the browser/screen reader doesn't
>>> bother to tell the user.
>>> 
>>> ~ethan fremen
>> 
>> Does the industry (I almost wrote "do we") know how big a problem this is in
>> practice?  That is, what fraction of users of screen readers and other
>> assistive stuff routinely run with JavaScript active?
>> 
>> Since the assertion here is "screenreaders have trouble with JavaScript" I
>> would expect most screenreader users to have JavaScript turned off.
>> 
>>  --John