Re: [Lynx-dev] Website shows blank page in Lynx browser

[Karen Lewellen]

Tim who?
Additionally, requirements that java script still work from the keyboard 
remain  a part of w3c rules.There are editions of Lynx that can submit 
from script links.  I realize  that can differ from Java scripting but 
still.
One  w3c resource I like is webaim.org
who details all the issues with Javascript especially void zero links.
Seriously though I wonder how many sites are simply a product of someone 
taking a tool adding stuff and stirring?
In that case  better web creation tools would help as well.
Kare



On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> What's really unfortunate about all of this is that javascript can do useful 
> tasks on websites in the house cleaning department and had it been restricted 
> to that kind of work and not blocking accessibility for all browsers it would 
> not have attracted the well earned controversy and lightning it has 
> attracted.  The producers of websites are responsible for misusing 
> javascript.  I don't know what Tim Burnersley's position on html5 is but it's 
> been around for long enough for him to have developed one.
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, David Woolley wrote:
>
> >  Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:44:34
> >  From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
> >  To: address@hidden
> >  Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Website shows blank page in Lynx browser
> >
> >  On 12/04/18 02:27, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > >   What would be really neat if it happened is if Tim Burnersley went and 
> > >   did
> > >   a class action suit on all javascript using websites requiring specific
> > >   performance where those sites had to remove permanently all html since
> > >   they had made his html inaccessible by using their
> >
> >  Unfortunately The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content
> >  Accessibility Group, now considers reliance on ECMAScript as acceptable,
> >  and has done so, for probably half a decade.  In my view that is because
> >  it is made up of accessibility consultants and graphical browser
> >  developers.
> >
> >  Also note that HTML5 is the product of a coup, by an industry consortium
> >  and is not controlled by W3C.  W3C wanted a semantically strong language,
> >  document mark-up language.  WHATWG wanted a language for running graphical
> >  applications on browsers, that was defined in such a way that even garbage
> >  produced consistent graphical results across browsers.
> >
> >  I don't think that Lynx is anywhere close to HTML5 compliance, because it
> >  doesn't parse it in a way that would allow it to use the mandated error
> >  recovery.
> >
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