I asked a colleague who is not involved in the IETF for a
comment, to see how it passed test 1 below. His first
reaction was positive. But then we noticed a problem.
He's running Firefox with noscript. He gets a simplified
version of the left hand bar - no subentries. And there
is no indication to him he was missing links, and even
when he, say, clicks on About the IETF, the page below
doesn't have substitutes for the missing Mission,
Standards Process and Note Well links (which I think
it should - I haven't checked the other similar cases).
He, and I, don't see any reason why this should be script
generated - or if the alternative views is seen as so
important (I'm not sure why) why the noscript version
doesn't show all information.
--
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