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That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS

• Jon Kantner describes his experience with some popular sites after turning off CSS. 12.5% of users with low vision (who use assistive technology) browse the web with custom stylesheets, so sites need to have good structural markup to build upon. The most common issues Jon encountered were: images/SVGs with no width/height attributes, so appeared massive on the screen; lack of whitespace between elements (sites rendering <a>Link 1</a><a>Link 2</a>, not marked up as a list); unlabelled buttons (which would also be a huge problem for voice input or screen reader users); and missing images (e.g. logos applied with CSS background-image).
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