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Why care about the no-JS experience?
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Note there's a group of users that larger than the group of users without JS (for whatever reason): users of assistive technology. And they don't even have a choice.
While I'm all for considering the needs of every user... If you get to the point where you're worrying about no-JS users, I hope you've already considered the needs of people with disabilities, whether temporary or permanent.
Edit: oh right, wanted to add: just making a site work without JS doesn't automatically make it accessible to people with special needs.
Doesn't avoiding JS typically structure a website in such a way that the browsers built-in assistive services can cover it easier?
Not necessarily, unfortunately. (Though I guess technically it's easier to throw up barriers using JS, but it's not an inherent quality, and leaving it out doesn't automatically make it good.)
I'm curious what parts would be challenging to use with a screen reader? If a site just has basic links and no JS, I can't really think of anything unless the tab layout is somehow completely shuffled due CSS.