Graceful degradation - when to consider

Question

When designing and building the UI for an application that uses AJAX, when do you consider graceful degradation (for users who have JavaScript disabled, or are using a screen reader)?

• At the end, once the AJAX version of the site is completely finished
• At every stage of development
• I don't
• Something else...

Answer 1

These days, progressive enhancement is generally preferred over graceful degradation - i.e. the exact opposite approach.