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		tomjen on June 18, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When to use tables for layout It is pretty pointless to care about blind users, since they can't use most AJAX based sites anyway.

jonny_noog on June 18, 2008 [–]

I thought this was the whole point behind "graceful degradation". If an AJAX based site does not degrade to still be useable/accessible when JS is off or unavailable, then it's not that well desgined to begin with.

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