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From: Steve Green
Date: Jan 29, 2014 3:49AM

" Today, there is NO reason to be using a technique that bloats page size, is difficult to maintain, potentially creates problems for a whole segment of users"

I totally agree, but that criticism could equally be levelled at the very latest development approaches. We see websites with 1MB or more of JavaScript (200k seems to be the absolute minimum these days) and dozens of CSS files - single pages on the BBC website use more than 30.

Despite the claims, JavaScript libraries are not accessible out-of-the-box and very few developers have any idea how to make them so. Some are so awful that all the ARIA in the world can't fix them.

By comparison, the accessibility barriers resulting from the use of layout tables are trivial (not that I advocate them of course).

Steve Green