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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Mar 5, 2010 6:42PM

On 2010-03-05, at 6:18 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> 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, I would hope that nobody would argue about using new technology to enhance a reasonably robust solution as described by Jared. I infer from your post that along with offering an ARIA based solution that you still implement something similar to what Jared has described and that the ARIA solution doesn't make the page less accessible for users of technology that does not fully support ARIA, is this correct?

Thanks,
Everett