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From: Travis Roth
Date: Mar 17, 2010 10:45AM

Mike Moore wrote:
"I have found these to work quite well. Having them triggered with an
onChange event can be a bit of a processing issue when the user works with a
keyboard and uses the down arrow to move through the list. The onChange
event is triggered each time the user moves to the next selection in the
list."

Under normal circumstances, opening a dropdown that has an onChange event
handler with Alt+Down Arrow before arrowing through the list keeps the
onChange event from firing until the dropdown is closed/set with Alt+Up
Arrow.
Unfortunately it seems many users do not know to do this when they
experience a dropdown with onChange.
If the onChange event does not force focus to the next control automatically
it helps a lot for when the user doesn't use the extra keystroke.

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,Michael
(DARS)
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Dropdown menus?

I have found these to work quite well. Having them triggered with an
onChange event can be a bit of a processing issue when the user works with a
keyboard and uses the down arrow to move through the list. The onChange
event is triggered each time the user moves to the next selection in the
list.

Mike Moore

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Liv Detrick
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 1:13 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Dropdown menus?

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with dynamic drop down menus
within a web form... a typical example would be two dropdown menus; one with
a list of countries, and one with a list of cities. Once you choose a
country, the second dropdown refreshes to include a list of cities within
your chosen country.

I've seen this done with the javascript onChange command or with AJAX... but
I'm unsure of their accessibility... does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!

Liv


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> Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Flash Authoring Tool
> Hello,
> Is there any information about the accessibility of Adobe Flash CS4
> Professional, or other Flash authoring tools? Much is made about Flash
> accessibility when it comes to the end Flash components. But what about
the
> authoring tools? What can a screen reader user do with current tools?
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> I am sure you will find good information here:
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> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/best_practices.html
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> > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:24 -0500
> > Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Flash Authoring Tool
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> > Hello,
> > Is there any information about the accessibility of Adobe Flash CS4
> > Professional, or other Flash authoring tools? Much is made about Flash
> > accessibility when it comes to the end Flash components. But what about
> the
> > authoring tools? What can a screen reader user do with current tools?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Travis Roth
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