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by est 909 days ago
> importance of HTML for accessibility

Can we simply say, Javascript driven SPA was a bad fad
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janosdebugs 909 days ago
I'm curious why? I built a JS-driven website and did extensive testing with the screen readers available to me (phone, etc). Adding a few aria properties seemed to work wonders. I think the problem isn't the SPA concept but rather that people don't bother testing. However, a horrible screen reader experience can be achieved without an SPA too and many do.
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est 909 days ago
a well designed JS-driven website is OK, but I've seen too many "learn-react-in-30min" style unnessesary SPA that barely works and buggy bullshit.

To name a few:

- hard-coded buttons disguised as a hyperlink

- customized textbox/dropdown disallow copy-paste

- poorly defined broken URLs and important pages without a proper URL

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peebeebee 909 days ago
the first two are just as easily replicated with MPA too.
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wryanzimmerman 908 days ago
JavaScript driven SPA is fine as long as everyone remembers that the entire and only point at the end of the day is to create HTML.
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