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  • It doesn’t have to not include JavaScript, that would be quite difficult and unreasonable. Accessible sites are not about limiting functionality but providing the same functionality.

    I haven’t gone fully down the rabbit hole on this but my understanding is even something like Nuxt if you follow best practices will deliver HTML that can be interacted with and serve individual pages.

    That said, screen readers and other support shouldn’t require running without any JavaScript. Having used them to test sites that might be the smart approach but they actually have a lot of tools for announcing dynamic website changes that are built into ARIA properties at the HTML level so very flexible. There are of course also JavaScript APIs for announcing changes.

    They just require additional effort and forethought to implement and can be buggy if you do really weird things.


  • Also the EU and technically a lot of US sites that provide services to or for the government have similar requirements. The latter is largely unenforced though unless you’re interacting with states that also have accessibility laws.

    And honestly a ton of sites that should be covered by these requirements just don’t care or get rubber stamped as compliant. Because unless someone actually complains they don’t have a reason to care.

    I kind of thought the EU requirements that have some actual penalties would change this indifference but other than some busy accessibility groups helping people that already care, I haven’t heard a lot about enforcement that would suggest it’s actually changed.













  • You don’t normally because they aren’t for hydration at all other than there is water involved. The history of their development coming out of the Florida Gator football program is quite interesting.

    When you sweat you lose more than water. If you’ve tasted sweat you probably noticed it’s salty. So after exercising for long periods you need to replenish more than water to keep your body balanced. That’s where electrolyte drinks can help, providing a lot of those salts and minerals as well as some water.

    There are a ton of caveats though because they don’t hydrate you. In fact, it is my understanding they can be dangerous if you’re actually dehydrated. People experiencing heat exhaustion or dehydration should only drink water, recovering their electrolytes only after they recover.

    Water is the primary thing you should be drinking to hydrate yourself. If you’re doing light exercise and feel like it would help, it’s probably better to water it down and focus on more water.