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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Jan 18, 2010 5:06AM

What are people's thoughts on using the noscript tag?



After using various unobtrusive flash placement techniques, the one thing
that always annoyed me as a visual user was that for a brief moment, any
flash-alternative content in the html would always be displayed before
anything else (JavaScript or flash content). Not always a problem, but in
cases where there is significant enough content to call the viewer's
attention, I found it increasingly unacceptable. So, recently I have started
wrapping all my flash-alternative content inside noscript tags to prevent
this happening.



Anybody have any reasons why this would hinder accessibility for any users?
WAVE seems to have an issue with the tag, but is there more to be concerned
with in using the tag?