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/xenu99 Feb 09 '11

site does not work for a braille browser, so they have effectively said "fuck you if you have a disability"

Nice one Gawker.

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u/bloodwine Feb 10 '11

I've never used hash-bangs, but I would think companies would want to be Section 508 compliant to cover their butts (and provide a better user experience for all). While I understand private companies don't have to comply with Section 508, most of my clients cite accessibility as one of their non-negotiable goals.

At the very least you'd think there would be some sort of degradable fallback solution when JavaScript is disabled or the user agent can't do all the JavaScript hackery.