Nice article from Digital Web Magazine on taking advantage of Javascript’s flexibility without sacrificing a user.

Windows users can feel like second-class citizens when Mac users rave about the elegance of Apple’s operating system and applications. Aaron Gustafson demonstrates how, with a little JavaScript in the behavior layer of our Web cake, we can transform half-baked s into a usable, accessible delicacy modeled on the Mac IE implementation.

Designers and developers looking for an easier way for users to digest this information have turned to JavaScript, but the problem is that scripts like these are not as accessible, don’t explicitly indicate the relationship between the groupings and their associated options and don’t work for users with JavaScript disabled.

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