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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: deblist@suberic.net
Date: Nov 6, 2009 9:50AM

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Al Sparber wrote:
> 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.

As a hands-free (and therefore keyboard-only) disabled user
myself, I strongly disagree with this. I very much prefer getting
the same user experience that non-keyboard-only users have, which
includes the drop-down menus. This is a fundamental principle of
universal design!

Getting shunted to landing pages for me is the accessible minimal
acceptable solution, but it is certainly not the way I like to
work.

-deborah