Earlier this week, I wrote about how I’m building a UI library for people who love HTML. I also published a YouTube video about it.
I got a lot of excited responses and comments about it, but also a noteworthy handful asking something along the lines of this…
People should not be prioritizing no-JS users. No one turns off JavaScript.
Today, I wanted to talk about why that’s wrong, and why you should care about the no-JS experience.
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.