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Re: Floating menus & accessibility

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From: Angela French
Date: Jul 7, 2011 10:12AM

Those are referred to as "mega menus".

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html

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Subject: [WebAIM] Floating menus & accessibility

Wonder if anyone has a comment on the accessibility of this technique?

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Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
University Communications, UC Davis
(530) 752-9612


... They are planning on using the content-heavy floating nav menus, such as can be found at:

http://www.washington.edu/ (use "Future Students" as an example) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (use "Environment" as an example)

He says that if they are coded correctly, they do conform to accessibility standards. Is this consistent with your understanding?