Progressive Enhancement: A Way to Reduce Complexity

The basic solution should always work for everyone across the browser and even back to Internet Explorer 3 because why not? It's completely possible. One thing I also want to mention when you've mentioned that I've dropped down is light boxes or modals. That's something that a lot of interaction designers just add on to their designs because it's such an easy solution. And what tends to happen is that the interface reader, which could be a screen reader or whatever that is trying to interpret information, loses its place where it was. There are many ways in which a modal can go wrong. And that means you need to test for it.