Are users who disable javascript (which are low in number) a topic for accessibility? To make everything accessible without javascript is more time consuming than to make site compatible for IE6.
My question is actually how many people keeps javascript disabled in browser, and if it’s very low percentage in the work then why do we need to make site compatible without javascript. What does WCAG 2.0 say about this?
I want to know other opinions on this issue.
See what is written in this article
With WCAG 2, “Don’t use x” is no
longer valid. (Was it ever?) It is now
up to you, the developer, to work on
the direct accessibility of your
content, no matter what technology you
choose. I believe we’re about to
experience a new wave of accessible
design techniques, as a result.
The use of javascript does not make a site inaccessible to screen readers depending on how it’s used. Stackoverflow is accessible even though it uses javascript, when I up or down vote a question I’m not notifyed that the score of the question has changed, but if I reread the question I can tell the score has changed. Things that would make a site inaccessible to screen readers while using javascript would include drawing on the canvas element, requiring certain areas of a graphic to be clicked in order to acomplish a task, creating charts with no text descriptions, etc.