The Kindle completely ignores CSS and JavaScriptĪ few of my progressively enhanced scripts use CSS to hide JS-dependent elements (ex. Even a recent web app I built, which unlike those new hottness single-page apps still uses server-side rendered code, was navigable and displayed all of the key content. The good news: the last three major sites I’ve built work, and work surprisingly well. Curious, I fired up my wife’s five year old, hand-me-down Kindle (version 2.5.2) and pulled up a few sites I’ve built. I advocate building sites in a layered, fault-tolerant way, but I don’t always test my sites on the worst of the worst devices. And she finds that many sites either don’t work or crash her browser. Her solution: she uses the experimental web browser on her e-ink Kindle. Because of her condition, she has to minimize time spent with backlit screens. She’s done everything to reduce the migraines’ frequency, from dramatically altering her diet, to trying every available medical treatment, to even moving several times to different climates. My wife’s cousin suffers from debilitating migraines. Today, Brad Frost wrote about the importance of providing accessible web experiences on low-powered devices (like an e-ink Kindle). Building websites that work on an e-ink Kindle
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