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Re: Javascript - Compliance Issue

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From: Steve Green
Date: Oct 28, 2010 7:54AM

Our interpretation of WCAG 2.0 is that a website is compliant even if it
does not work without JavaScript. JavaScript is considered to be an
'accessibility supported technology' insofar as it meets at least one of the
criteria specified in WCAG 2.0. You just need to state that it is a
requirement in your technology baseline.

This does not seem satisfactory to me, but I guess the WCAG thinking is that
everyone can easily and cheaply (or at no cost at all) obtain a user agent
that supports JavaScript. If there are constraints such as corporate IT
policy that prevent users from doing so, that is not an accessibility issue
- in fact it's not your problem at all.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd