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From: David Farough
Date: May 5, 2010 11:00AM

I was able to activate the link by tabbing to the desired heading, and
then routing the jaws cursor to the focus point and then using the left
mouse click button key to activate the link. After that point I could
use the arrow keys to move through the links. I don't know whether all
of the links were there though. I was not able to remove the links with
another click. And I did not try to activate the next heading to see
what happened to the text which was previously displayed.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

>>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 07:45 AM Wednesday, May 05, 2010 >>>
Using JAWS 11 and IE8 I'm not finding any submenus or drop down menus.
There
is only the general categories with links "STuff for her" "Stuff for
him" "
etc.
Chuck
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From: "Angela French" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'UW Web Accessibility Group'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >;
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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:03 PM
Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility of this drop down menu


> Can anyone please tell me if this type of menu is accessible to
screen
> readers and non-mouse users?
> http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/megadropdowns/completed.html#
>
>
> When I tab through the navigation links, I can't get to the
submenus.
>
> I am building a similar menu and concerns about it being usable for
> everyone (even those with Javascript turned off).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Angela French
> Internet Specialist
> State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
> 360-704-4316
> http://www.checkoutacollege.com<;http://www.checkoutacollege.com/>;
>
>