Jonathan SchofieldRecency bias as an impediment to accessibility.
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…The yin to progressive enhancement’s yang is supposed to be graceful degradation.
Disgraceful degradation is not the same. It’s akin to #postgrowth instead of #degrowth
…I have a #webDev suggestion.
As the gap grows between the ground that developers can reasonably cover and the ground that exists, and things like Reader mode fail for undiscernible reasons, devs should offer users lower-fi options like
- View this with basic styling
- View this with no styling
- View this without JavaScript
This is straightforward to do.
It’s a concept which @jimniels calls ‘fidelity’ options
…Jim’s exploration was mostly with respect to device bandwidth. But my focus is more on divergent device capability
Jim Nielsen@urlyman maybe tangential, but have you seen terence eden's posts about text-only websites? i've been wanting to try this out...
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
A small collection of text-only websites
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no…
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