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From: Al Sparber
Date: Jun 1, 2009 1:25PM

From: "Juan Ulloa" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> We use the superfish and hoverintent jquery plugins at
> http://bellevuecollege.edu. This combo allows us to make the menu
> keyboard accessible (via tabbing), minimizes the accidental popup of menus
> and gives us control over how long the menu will display after the user
> hovers away from the menu.

I think you might have missed some of the great points made, particularly by
John. Merely being keyboard (tab key) accessible is not necessarily a good
thing and may, in fact, be a bad thing. Having the menu work when script is
disabled is almost always a bad thing.

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Al Sparber - PVII
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