Accessibility: Use Ajax, Get Sued?

If you use AJAX, will you automatically get sued?

Written by Jonathan "JD" Danylko • Last Updated: May 30th, 2006 • Develop •

Accessibility is something that all designers/developers are interested in achieving for their web sites.

With Ajaxian posting an article about Accessibility: Use AJAX, get sued?, I have some concerns about this type of posting.

Let's say you have a dropdown list box (combobox to you Windows GUI developers), and you want to automatically populate that list by using AJAX based on whether all criteria on the form has been met. With accessibility, there should be no problems whatsoever implementing this type of technique into the site. Accessibility will be achieved while using the newest AJAX technology in the process.

If simple AJAX is used on the site in an appropriate manner and not going overboard with the technology, certain accessibility standards, and possibly all, can easily be met.

Any comments on this particular issue?

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Jonathan "JD" Danylko is an author, web architect, and entrepreneur who's been programming for over 30 years. He's developed websites for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies since 1996.

He currently works at Insight Enterprises as an Architect.

When asked what he likes to do in his spare time, he replies, "I like to write and I like to code. I also like to write about code."

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