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Re: Accessible accordion menus

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From: John Foliot
Date: Mar 9, 2009 11:40AM

Al Sparber wrote:

>
> Your menu, however, since it is relatively small in scope could be
better
> deployed thusly:
>
> Have your triggers be headings.
> Use background images over real text.
> Position the menu lists off-screen.
> Assign your onclicks assigned programmatically instead of being on the
tags
> Place a skip-nav link above the first heading.
>
> Perfect now :-)
>

...*AND* keep the number of links low. Re: Seth's off-screen suggestion,
be sure to read Jared's post:
http://webaim.org/blog/hiding-content-for-screen-readers/