Progressive Enhancement is practiced by (some) public-funded organisations. These organisations have a public duty to serve as wide as a audience as possible. I don't know if these Progressive Enhancement websites are in a minority or not, but it's disappointing if they represent a minority.

Progressive Enhancement website examples:

GOV.UK

The UK government website (gov.uk) use Progressive Enhancement and even have guidelines: Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement (Last updated 2019): https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi...

From the article guidelines above:

> Progressive enhancement is a way of building websites and applications. It’s based on the idea that you should start by making your page work with just HTML, before adding anything else like Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript.

> This is because HTML is the most resilient layer. If the HTML fails there’s no web page. Should the CSS or JavaScript fail, the HTML will still render correctly.

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BBC News website

I just tried the BBC News website (bbc.co.uk/news) and it works without JavaScript (for UK visitors).