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It is a common myth that JavaScript and accessibility don’t go well together. This bad rep- utation is largely due to the very obtrusive manner in which JavaScript is generally applied, and not the fault of the language. JavaScript is a tool-a means to achieve a goal. If you use a knife as a tool, you could slice bread with it or cause bodily harm. It is not the knife that determines how it is used.
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© 2006 Jim Thatcher, Michael R. Burks, Christian Heilmann, Shawn Lawton Henry, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Patrick H. Lauke, Bruce Lawson, Bob Regan, Richard Rutter, Mark Urban, Cynthia D. Waddell
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Heilmann, C. (2006). Accessible Javascript. In: Web Accessibility. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0188-5_10
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