IBM, open source, Firefox and accessibility

16 Aug 2005

IBM's decided to donate a big wodge of source code to the Firefox community to help with DHTML accessibility. Now that's very generous of IBM and it's going to be of great help to anyone using AJAX apps on their sites - assuming only Firefox users visit it - but I can't help but think that if you're going for accessible, you don't include DHTML. That's just the way it is.

Maybe I'm an accessibility traditionalist, but forcing disabled users to use Firefox just to have some scrolling maps that are hard to describe anyway seems a little pointless. How about steering clear of DHTML altogether unless you have a text alternative? That seems much more sensible to me.

Posted by Rob on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 2:23 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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