[Mailman-Developers] Accessible DOM manipulations

[Bryan Carbonnell]

On 7/6/06, Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:
> Ethan wrote:
>
> > One example is keeping extraneous text hidden until it is selected; I
> > imagine that someone using a screen reader/portable device would
> > appreciate being able to read a "overview" page variant and then being
> > able to expand as necessary.
>
> I would much prefer to do this without JavaScript.  Because you can't
> guarantee that you know the way that page would be rendered if you send
> all sorts of "hidden" text that isn't shown until such time as someone
> does something to make it appear, and you can't control what kinds of
> mailicious cross-scripting attacks people may throw at you, it's best to
> simply not send anything that the user cannot currently see.

I have to agree with Brad on this.

An option may be to give the site admin the ability to turn the JS
on/off site wide with a mm_cfg.py variable.

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