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> there are valid accessibility reasons why no one uses form submission for table filtering and sorting anymore

What are they? I was only aware of this being a performance and general polish issue--what's the accessibility tie-in? I still use form submission for this.

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I guess it depends on how much care you're taking with maintaining the client's position and focus post-submission/page load, and then also announce what data changed on the page. And if someone with cognitive disabilities has to reorient themselves in the now updated page then that's probably not going to result in a great experience.

Example table for comparison: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/table/examples/sort...

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