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Re: avoiding tabbing through drop downs

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Mar 6, 2010 3:54AM

> I've yet to see a complex drop-down menu that is friendly, intuitive
> for all users, and also fully accessible. If anybody knows of one that
> just plain works, I'd love to see it. Perhaps there is one - I've just
> yet to see it. In the meantime, why not provide a mechanism that is
> known to work wonderfully for everyone?
>
>
Most problems with massive navigation are Information Architecture
issues and not solvable on a pure technical level. As we moved away from
thinking about content and have a tech fetish instead and misinterpret
"3 click rules" we run in circles with our arguments.