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From: Al Sparber
Date: Jun 10, 2009 9:50PM


From: "Mackenzie, Hamish" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> Hi All
>
> My organisation are looking at putting drop down menus in the nav on our
> site. They will be very simple drop downs and not too layered.
> Basically they wan one level of options numbering maybe four or five
> options to appear when a certain area of the nav has the mouse over it.
> would it be possible to make this accessible and could anyone please
> point me at some examples if they exist.

Use a JavaScript-based menu. There are several out there. It's usually best
to stay away from drop downs that are operated purely with CSS. If you
search this list's archive for your subject you should come up with several
lengthy discussions.

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Al Sparber - PVII
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