Regarding our RSS to JS demo (code that allows you to embed RSS into any web page using a script that returns RSS as a series of JavaScript write statements), Michelle appropriately noticed that this approach would leave in the dark anyone using a screen reader (or just having JavaScript turned off). Bad dog. The problem is that screen readers will skip the Javascript statements. A first cut solution I have just added is a suggestion for a NOSCRIPT tag that has a link to another script (rss2html.php) that takes the same feed and returns a normal HTML version of the feed. You pass this script the same parameters that are passed to the rss2js.php script. You can see it in action from our RSS2JS demo as well as the code builder form that is on that same site. Then, go to your browser preferences and turn off JavaScript, and [...]
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