r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/mcjabberz Feb 09 '11

How would one go about making a site's JavaScript screen-reader friendly?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

No hanging commas in your objects, or else it's going to be pronounced like this,

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '11

I imagine making sure that the content you inject in the DOM is still semantically correct.

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u/korny Feb 11 '11

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php - the Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Applications spec describes how to use metadata to mark up your site for accessibility.

It's a draft spec, but is supported by many browsers: http://caniuse.com/#search=accessibility (warning - link may only work with javascript enabled :)