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From: Angela French
Date: Jun 9, 2011 10:03AM

I have another question regarding select lists. I'm sure you have all seen the practice in select lists where the first item in the list has not value, but instead its text attempts to put a title or name on the entire list. For example the QuickLinks list in the top right of the banner on our home page: http://www.sbctc.edu/index.aspx .

This seems a bad practice to me but would like the opinion of this group, especially screen reader users. How does a screen reader user know that the first item is not actually a choice in the list? Selecting it gets you nowhere. :(



Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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