[DoingIsLearning]

> The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost

I would imagine this was mostly driven by accessibility requirements more so than some ideological rigidity.

[biofox]

Unfortunately, some people view accessibility as an ideology.

[tweetle_beetle]

Perhaps, but, taking the example provided, Gov.uk deals with population scale products funded by taxpayers and which may be exclusively digital. Accessibility as an ideology makes sense in this context, and, I would argue, is morally correct.

[tzmudzin]

It’s easy to dismiss the genuine needs of someone else if one’s not impacted though.

Ideology or not, exclusion does not help.

[fragmede]

a little bit of the right kind of JavaScript helps accessibility, so it's clearly not