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From: Dylan Nicholson
Date: Oct 21, 2014 6:46PM

"The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/>; also require that web applications function when JavaScript is disabled or not supported"

I've looked through WCAG 2.0 pretty carefully and I can't see anywhere that says that a web application is required to "function" when JavaScript is not supported. Sure, you need a NOSCRIPT tag explaining that JavaScript is required, but to suggest a web application has to "function" in this case is surely unrealistic in this day and age. Is this just poor wording?

Thanks

Dylan