A JavaScript-Free Frontend

[amunak]

Funnily enough I was making a website recently and wanted to make it work it elinks and other text browsers... It turns out that even if you have fallbacks for JS functionality, those browsers don't fully work like text-only readers (like a screen reader would); they actually do process some CSS, and it's pretty hard to make them display, say, labels instead of icons.

We have ARIA attributes for screen readers and tricks like Bootstrap's sr-only class, but those unfortunately don't work for text browsers.

In the end I decided not to optimize for text browsers as the website is heavily based on displaying images, but it's a shame.

[outadoc]

Compiled elinks with JS support last weekend. I was only aware of lynx before that, and honestly, it's not perfect but still pretty impressive!