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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: John Foliot
Date: Mar 5, 2010 6:45PM

<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

>
> 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.

Hi Deborah,

Just curious to know how many people provided this feedback to you. A
panel of 5 experienced users will generally always return back that kind
of answer, but a panel of 5,000 users of various ability and set-top
configurations might not. I love ARIA, and it *will* solve a lot of
problems, but we still have no guarantee that ARIA techniques will work
for all users - it's a browser (and version) dependant solution still.
(DEATH to IE 6!!)

Cheers!

JF