Please don't be personally abrasive in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"modern website"

The text is in plain format in the source file. What does the JS add besides actually showing the text. Nothing.

In 1999 the Web had aligned text, fonts, and hyperlinks. In 2015 we need JS to do this!?

Agreed.

As I said: it's a trivial fix.

> There's something to be said for supporting accessibility, and I completely endorse that, but if you turn javascript off because you want to, don't complain when you can't read or use a modern website.

> The web uses javascript. Get used to it.

There's absolutely no reason to require the execution of potentially malicious code in order to read an article. Yes, web apps require JavaScript (and I don't use very many of them, for precisely that reason), but a web page, that is a resource fetched via HTTP (the hypertext transfer protocol) and encoded in HTML (hypertext markup language), simply doesn't and shouldn't.

The Internet is about communication; it's about the exchange of information.

Don't be myopic: accessibility standards do not require JS.