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From: Jordan, Courtney
Date: Jan 31, 2011 1:48PM

That's certainly a lot of pages! Is there any way that you can break it
up into categories? Even as a sighted user, I would be frustrated
looking through 500 options in a drop-down list. That is assuming that I
even knew what the particular title of the page was. We can't expect
people to remember the title of every page. People can generally hold
about 5-7 or fewer items in memory. From my experience using JAWS 9, I
couldn't get the screen reader to "read" any items under the first one.
It would automatically trigger the first one and I would never get to
the others. Including a button avoided that issue as it didn't trigger a
JavaScript event from the drop-down selection itself, but from the
clicking of the button.

Good luck!
Courtney Jordan