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by dmazzoni 1049 days ago
FWIW, all the major screen readers fully support JavaScript. There's nothing inherently inaccessible about a website that uses JavaScript. In fact, the screen readers don't actually interpret the JavaScript at all - they just react to the page dynamically changing, it doesn't matter how it's accomplished.
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There's nothing inherent no, just that javascript webpages, if some CDN doesn't load fast enough, or the dev uses some bleeding edge function not in all browsers, etc, will not end up having the text in the page. Whereas actually having the text in the page always has the text in the page.

JS sites almost always fail very badly when it fails (a relatively common event). Text sites cannot fail even when they fail.