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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Mar 5, 2010 5:57PM

It's like telling a wheelchair user that the building is accessible,
they just have to come in through the back door.


44 PM 3/5/2010, you wrote:
>So if one added an item to the drop down list, one wuld have to add a link
>elsewhere for accessibility, correct?
>I am always skeptical about a project that requires a non obvious specific
>action for accessibility. It is so easy to add an item to a menu but forget
>to add a link to it on a different page, in which case you now have a
>limited access to screen reader users.
>I guess that is what Geoff means by Two Beer accessibility, but it is worse
>in a sense, since it could easily turn into partial accessibility.
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