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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Nov 8, 2009 10:55AM

Hi John

I dont know what you've done but it messes up JAWS real bad. I
checked the 2 examples and somewhere down the page JAWS goes into a
mode I've never heard before, applications mode. When it is in this
mode I cant navigate anywhere and have to close the page. I'm using JAWS 10.0

cheers

Geof

At 12:02 PM 11/8/2009, you wrote:
>Here is an example using ARIA markup:
>http://test.cita.illinois.edu/aria/menubar/menubar1.php
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