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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Nov 6, 2009 9:25AM

>
> The most accessible *and* usable menus of this kind are ones in which
> the
> sub-menus are not available to keyboard or non-sighted people, but
> which
> instead include links on the root items to "landing" pages, from which
> links
> in the relevant sub-menu are present in the flow of the document's
> visible
> content areas.


Al,

I do not agree with this statement. While I would agree that the root
menu item should be a real link to an actual destination, I hardly regard
it as accessible or usable to not provide programmatic access and visual
focus to sub-menu options.

Karl