7. Ajax and Accessibility
Doing the Right Thing
In an oft-quoted remark, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said:
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
The first sentence refers to the power of universal access. Using the principle of progressive enhancement, you can harness that power pretty easily. If you build your Web sites on a foundation of semantic, well-structured markup and then use technologies like CSS and JavaScript to add extra layers of presentation and behavior, you can rest assured that your content will be accessible by any user-agent.
As you've seen, the same approach can be taken with Ajax. The Hijax technique lets you add snazzy interactivity for the benefit of ...
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