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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jul 11, 2013 11:11AM

2013-07-11 19:23, Greg Gamble wrote:

> Since Firefox is removing the ability to disable JavaScript soon,

What?

> what does this mean to web developers who care about accessibility, like us?

If true, it would mean a little bit of more work. You would need to use
an add-on that lets you switch of all or part of JavaScript. Not very
difficult, but could be annoying to some.

> Personally, I think it's a good thing. We'll no longer need to design pages that fallback gracefully any more.

So you mean that if you cannot directly test, on one browser, how a page
behaves with scripting disabled, you don't need to do such testing at
all? Analogously, if Firefox removes the option of not loading images
automatically, will you stop worrying about alt attributes?

Yucca