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From: Geof Collis
Date: May 5, 2010 6:39PM

Perhaps someone can help me. I've read that drop down menus present a
problem to certain disabilities such as shaky hands, if this is true
then why are so many so keen to use drop down menus?


cheers

Geof

At 07:23 PM 5/5/2010, you wrote:
>Angela,
>Have you checked the design patterns in the WAI-ARIA Authoring
>Practices 1.0? I think the Menu widget might be what you are
>looking for. Here's a link to the Menu widget design pattern:
>http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#menu
>
>In the Menu widget design pattern, you'll find a description of the
>pattern, guidelines for keyboard interaction guidelines, guidelines
>for roles, states and properties, as well as a working code example,
>if one is available. If you play around with the working code
>example, you'll get an idea of whether this pattern fits your needs.
>
>You might find additional examples in codetalks.org's ARIA Test
>Cases, which are based on the WAI-ARIA design patterns:
>http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Set_of_ARIA_Test_Cases
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>claudia
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Angela French [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:03 PM
>To: 'UW Web Accessibility Group'; 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>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/>;
>
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