[thelist] Accessible Javascript news feed

ben morrison ben at benjer.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 20 14:21:05 CDT 2004


Im trying to get my head round the WAI's recommendation for making  
Javascript accessible.

I've been asked to include a news feed (box) from the bbc.

an example can be seen here:
http://www.easy.com/bbc_newsHL.html

to start with it has noscript content:

<noscript><a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/ 
html/javascript.stm"
target="_BBC"><img
src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/htmlsyndication/furniture/synd_js_error_js- 
inactive.gif"
width="165" height="200" border="0" alt="BBCi: Javascript is not  
available
on this browser"/></a></noscript>

but this isn't helpful noscript content - surely a link to bbc news  
page would be more useful?

so this would fail WAI guidlines already.

i'm  interested in the fact that (some) Screen readers can use  
javascript - how could I then test to see wether it was accessible?

ben



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