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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: deblist
Date: Mar 5, 2010 5:18PM

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Jared Smith wrote:
> The main navigation item would trigger the display of the sub-menu
> items with onmouseover only. ...
> The main menu item would also be a standard, accessible link to a
> secondary page that provides the sub-navigation links in standard
> HTML,

Not to reignite the argument that happened the last time this
topic came up, but I just wanted to state that this is not a
universally accepted idea. In the open source project I
contribute to, the consensus among keyboard and screen reader
users is that ARIA-enabled menus are far more usable for us than
secondary page links alone. Which solution is right for your user
community depends on knowing the use patterns of your user
community.

-deborah