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Re: MouseOver Menus

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From: Susan Bignell
Date: Jul 17, 2002 12:24PM

I've been working on an accessible site where we wanted this functionality. However, the programmer was unable to make it work entirely satisfactorily while keeping the sizing of the left navigational text relative. Ran into some annoying page-loading behaviour. It works fine with fixed size, but that's not what we want. We've therefore abandoned the idea.

Susan Bignell
----- Original Message -----
From: Cohen, Lisa A.
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: MouseOver Menus


Tim,
I have seen menus where there is dual functionality. Mouseover uses DHTML
to show a little box with several link selections, but if you tab to the
same place (link) and select it (hit Enter) you get an intermediate page
with the same several link selections. This way you have the fancy stuff
with alternate accessible navigation.
Lisa