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From: Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Date: Mar 6, 2009 11:50AM

Hi again,

Thanks for the examples, and I'm sorry to have stirred up something here. (grin)

I think the reason the developer went with this accordion menu was because the customer (my organization) wanted a less cluttered page. So the extra info wouldn't be displayed until one of the main menu items was selected. But I would think that there are so many other simpler ways of achieving this. I'd almost rather see a separate HTML page for each section than a huge script-heavy page that expands all its menus on that same page.. That's just my opinion as a user, but I may well be behind the times on that.
T
Hanks.

Courtney



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Watch out! :)

Dallas Despain | RightNow Technologies | Developer | 406-556-3454 | Salt Lake City, UT


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Al Sparber
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible accordion menus

From: "John Foliot" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> Ritz, Courtney L. wrote
>>
>>
>> Can anyone point me to some examples of accessible accordion-style
>> menus?
>
> NO - LOL
>
> Please read this recent thread:
> http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread.php?thread=3782
>
> And in particular, my diatribe here:
> http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message.php?id=12588
>
> Then, if you still must, Google "son of suckerfish" or (here Al, I'll save
> you the trouble) see the PVII solution: http://www.projectseven.com/

Huh? What did I do now :-)

Seriously, whichever menu the gent chooses to use, it would make sense to do
it this way:
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/ug-examples/accessible/

I know some folks have done some interesting things with arrow key support,
but as a Jaws 10 user I can now attest to the fact that completely hiding
the menus from blind surfer is the better solution. It can be done with any
scripted menu, but it cannot be done with Son of Suckerfish.

--
Al Sparber - PVII
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