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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Nov 6, 2009 12:55PM

As a screen reader user I would prefer the choice of tabbing through
whatever number of choices exist.
Chuck
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From: "Al Sparber" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible
expandablemenu?


> From: "Jason Megginson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible
> expandablemenu?
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>> HTML Dog is an excellent source for clean HTML and CSS. However, I would
>> improve upon their example by including an onFocus event so the sub-menus
>> appear when keyboard focus is present on the parent menu item and as the
>> focus is on the sub-menu items as a user tabs.
>>
>> This provides accessibility to sighted and non-sighted keyboard users.
>
> It also forces keyboard users to have to tab through all sub-menu items,
> which presents usability problems tabbing to fifth root item when there
> are
> 40 sub-menu items in the way :-)
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> 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.
>
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