"Negative text-indent can cause accessibility problems. Scenario "CSS on-images off" will see no content at all."
What disability is overcome by leaving CSS on and turning images off?
What disability is overcome by leaving CSS on and turning images off?
It doesn't matter to me if it is because a screenreader, a Lynx browser, a preference, or a no-script plug-in. All that matters to me is my users can access my content on a broad range of devices.
CSS on/Images off is an unlikely scenario, but it is a possible scenario (also consider the possibility of images not loading for whatever reason). If I were a user stuck in that scenario, I'd say: "I can't access core parts of this website". For a website developer, you could call that an accessibility problem, no?
Relevant thread on WebAIM: http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=3785 A little more cheeky: http://www.arespritesaccessible.net/explain.php Wikipedia: Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
No. I'd call it a connection/network issue. The universality consideration (which is what you are really advocating here) then points to progressive enhancement -- defensive design -- as a technique to mitigate the failure to load a page's supplementary assets.