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From: ben morrison
Date: Sep 20, 2004 1:27PM

Im trying to get my head round the WAI's recommendation for making
Javascript accessible.

I've been asked to include a news feed (box) from the bbc.

an example can be seen here:
http://www.easy.com/bbc_newsHL.html

to start with it has noscript content:

<a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/html/javascript.stm"
target="_BBC"><img
src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/htmlsyndication/furniture/synd_js_error_js-inactive.gif"
width="165" height="200" border="0" alt="BBCi: Javascript is not available
on this browser"/>

but this isn't helpful noscript content - surely a link to bbc news
page would be more useful?

so this would fail WAI guidlines already? or could I add in my own
content instead/as well as.

i'm interested in the fact that (some) Screen readers can use
javascript - how could I then test to see wether it was accessible?
because surely thats another issue in itself.

ben