Website doesn't work on IE8 and earlier

[ultrasaurus]

I applied for an unlimited free account (since this is open source) at https://www.browserstack.com to test this more -- I tried it on an online checker and it looked like the navbar didn't render in older browser.

[paulproteus]

Per https://caniuse.com/usage-table , IE8 and earlier is less than 0.25% of all web browser usage, and my personal opinion is that it's totally OK for the site to work in merely 99.75% of all people's web browsing experiences. Happy to hear more thoughts on the issue, or to be asked to quiet down and let people fix this. :)

[ultrasaurus]

One idea would be to fall back to a very simple HTML page -- I would want to make sure that the site works on screen readers, so that it is accessible to visually impaired folks.

[iisa]

@ultrasaurus is there a way to share the browserstack login? Maybe I can run and help audit the bugs and create smaller issues around them.

I do agree that we should think about global accessibility in this way.

[iisa]

Acceptance Criteria:

• Identify what does not work in IE8
• Set processes to ensure that it does
• Create tickets that pair with the processes identified

Ex. If we are using JavaScript, then create at ticket to have a transpilation process.
Ex. If we need to be more semantic, document that on the wiki.