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by pjerem 925 days ago
JS issues with accessibility is not inherent to the JS compatibility itself with the browser.

It’s much more that JS tends to make your page being modified in unexpected ways. If all you have is a voice reading the page, you may be submerged by information each time the dom changes and you may have a hard time understanding what is the context of the element which changed.

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You can still make it perfectly accessible screen-reader-wise/WCAG-wise.

Pointing out to actual accessibility issues would have been a much better argument than generic complaining about the website requiring JS.

How does it work with a screen reader when the JS decides to refresh all controls simultaneously?
Here is a video of a blind person browsing the web https://youtu.be/OOvXuz6ejuw
The point is that for some reason no one's guilty for the crap sites; i guess they just show up when it rains.