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From: Joe Chidzik
Date: Jul 3, 2012 6:26AM

> A possible method to overcome the unfamiliarity is to provide pseudo
> tooltip [2] that is displayed when the first item receives focus. this can be
> used to include brief instructions to the user such as "use arrow keys to
> navigate" or some such.
>
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-menu-element.html#the-menu-
> element
> [2] http://hanshillen.github.com/jqtest/#goto_tooltip
>
> regards
> SteveF

[Joe Chidzik]
Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply and the links. Really like the idea of using pseudo tooltips to alert keyboard users with instructions, will see if I can get an example put together for this.

Cheers
Joe