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It's maddening and appalling to you because you deliberately disabled an essential part of the web platform on your browser. Your problem, not theirs.

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What about the blind who use screen readers or braille displays? Why should the page become so bloated that I can't read simple text simply?

I don't have first-hand experience, but my impression is that modern screen readers shouldn't have too much trouble with simple JavaScript like this.

Could anybody with experience confirm/deny?

According to a recent podcast I listened to[1] about a blind Software user, it seemed like there is a lot of issues with the current generation of Screen Readers. This includes issues with JS.

1.http://hanselminutes.com/413/im-a-blind-software-technician-...

This is not an endorsement (or not) for blogs that rely on JS, but apparently 98.6% of screenreader users have javascript enabled.[0]

[0] http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/

Doesn't mean that it's makes for a pleasant or useful experience. Viz http://hanselminutes.com/413/im-a-blind-software-technician-... from a sibling comment of yours.

Also, I'm surprised I got downvoted for saying that we should be considering the disabled when making decisions on how to structure a blog. I know accessibility isn't _cool_ but it's the right thing to do, especially for a text-based site, like a blog.

(PS: mendelk, I'm not accusing you of downvoting me)

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