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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: deblist
Date: Mar 5, 2010 7:48PM

John Foliot wrote:

> 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 cannot give you numbers, but I can tell you that the users with
disabilities who provide us with feedback range from programmers
to novice computer users. Some are blind or low vision, some are
keyboard-only, some are voice control, some have visual
processing disorders, some have cognitive impairments.

What we have found is that our users are either prefer the
flexibility of being able to access drop-down menus, or don't
even notice the drop down menus. Nobody who has given us feedback
has been bothered by them.

Again, this is true of our user base, and is presumably not true
of every other user community. But that's true of all
accessibility programming: as WebAIM says, "there is no typical
screen reader user". Therefore, you program for the needs of your
user community.

-deborah