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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Mar 5, 2010 7:57PM

On 2010-03-05, at 8:40 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

> 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.)


* A comment on the issue of drop down and secondary menus getting out of synch. This problem can be avoided if using a content management system, or equivalent technology, that supports a menu system. As an example, Drupal has a menu system that can be administered by the site administrators. The administrator could setup a menu for "Products" and design a theme that would have that menu appear both as the drop down for the Products menu item and as the secondary menu on the Products page. This means that the menu will only need to be updated once for multiple uses.

Thanks again,
Everett