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Re: alternative to use of onChange in select menus

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From: Angela French
Date: Jun 9, 2011 8:36AM

Giovanni - I believe you meant this for Courtney for her thread on Word forms.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Giovanni Duarte
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] alternative to use of onChange in select menus

Hi Angela,
You may want to check the link below.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/accessible-forms-in-word.asp

Thanks,
Giovanni.

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Angela French
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 5:47 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] alternative to use of onChange in select menus

I am exploring options to reworking the functionality of the Quicklinks select (drop down) menu found in top of our global banner on this site:
http://www.sbctc.edu/index.aspx . It relies on the JavaScript onChange event which makes it unusable to either screen readers or keyboard users (correct me please if I am wrong).

Does anyone have an example URL they might direct me to of an alternative to this approach?

Thank you,

Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
360-704-4316
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