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Re: [Lynx-dev] shebang URL hash - #!


From: Thorsten Glaser
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] shebang URL hash - #!
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:02:48 +0000 (UTC)

David Woolley dixit:

>> Tell them it requires ECMAscript and therefore violates basic
>> accessibility principles.
>
> Unfortunately, the W3C web accessibility initiative hasn't taken that position

They’re not everyone. You know how many lynx users cannot evade
to something else with ECMAscript support who are active on this
mailing list, alone.

Plus, the BSI (German IT security ministry) is also forbidden
from turning on JS ☻ or at least were in 2018 or so, but this
probably hasn’t changed.

> (My take on this is that WCAG membership is mainly accessibility
> consultants, and consultants need solutions that are acceptable to
> businesses, or they will be out of business themselves.)

Unsurprisingly.

> I actually note the OP wanted an accessible way of using YouTube.  I

No, this is a different thread.

bye,
//mirabilos
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