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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: deblist
Date: Mar 5, 2010 7:39PM

E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> * 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?

Right. Selecting the top link of our drop-down menus will still
take you to a secondary page containing all the links. (Which of
course offers the risk mentioned earlier in this thread, of the
links in the drop-down and the links on the destination page
getting out of sync. I have seen that happen, and it's incredibly
frustrating; we do our best to avoid it.)

However, we also make sure that all of our drop-down menus are
accessible via keyboard, so that screen reader and keyboard-only
users can access them if they so choose, and if they have
technology that allows it. This satisfies our user community.

-deborah